New Hampshire lawmakers are considering a $100 million fund to settle hundreds of claims of child sex abuse at the state's youth detention center. The attorney for most of the victims says the proposal is tone-deaf.
Ten former workers at the Youth Development Center in Manchester and one from a pre-trial facility in Concord werewith either sexually assaulting or acting as accomplices to the assault of more than a dozen teenagers from 1994 to 2007.
While the bill appropriates $100 million, the fund’s administrator could request additional money from the Legislature if a shortfall is likely to occur. Until recently, Rilee represented nearly all of the alleged victims. He has since teamed up with Nixon Peabody, an international law firm with more than 600 attorneys. One of them, David Vicinanzo, said Tuesday if the settlement fund is enacted, the state must tread carefully with victims who have very little reason to trust the state given that they were abused by it.
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