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The exterior of the Merrimack County Superior Courthouse in Concord, N.H., is seen Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer)

First criminal trial arising from New Hampshire youth detention center abuse scandal starts

By Holly Ramer - Associated Press

David Meehan, center, walks out of the courtroom with his attorney Rus Rilee and victim specialist Joelle Wiggin during Meehan's trial at Rockingham Superior Court in Brentwood, N.H., on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. (David Lane/Union Leader via AP, Pool)

Ex-youth center worker testifies that top bosses would never take kids’ word over staff

By Holly Ramer - Associated Press

FILE - David Meehan, center, the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit accusing the State of New Hampshire of covering up decades of sexual, physical and emotional abuse at its youth detention center, poses with two other victims who did not want to be identified, at his lawyer's office on Feb. 18, 2021, in Portsmouth, N.H. Meehan's allegations of physical and sexual abuse at New Hampshire's youth detention center have led to 11 arrests and more than 700 lawsuits. Six years after he first went to police, he said in January 2023 that he is not happy with the pace of proceedings on either the criminal or civil side. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

New Hampshire still challenged by youth center abuse scandal

By Holly Ramer - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2020, file photo is the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, N.H. New Hampshire's attorney general's office said six men were arrested Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in connection with sexual abuse allegations at the state-run youth detention center. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

6 charged in NH youth detention center sex abuse probe

By HOLLY RAMER - Associated Press

Mary Goddard poses outside the Sununu Youth Development Center, Tuesday, March 23, 2021, in Manchester, N.H. Goddard, a former intern at New Hampshire’s youth detention center says a supervisor suggested she destroy her notes and lie about a teen’s sexual assault allegation. And though she reported the boy’s claim to state investigators and police, it wasn’t included in an annual report that state officials submitted to the federal government.(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Ex-youth center intern says she was told to destroy notes

By HOLLY RAMER - Associated Press

Man charged in youth center sex assaults faces accuser

By HOLLY RAMER - Associated Press