In the only civil case to go to trial so far, a jury awarded David Meehan $38 million in May for abuse he says he suffered at the Youth Development Center in the 1990s, though the verdict remains in dispute.
In New Hampshire youth center sex abuse case, defense seeks to undermine accuser's credibility
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"What, I’m the bad guy? I was a bad kid so I deserved it? Or I was a bad kid, so that proves I’m a bad man now, and I (expletive) it made it up?" he said.
Martha Gaythwaite, lawyer defending New Hampshire in abuse trial, attacks David Meehan's credibility
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