WHEN TRUTH IS MORE DISGUSTING THAN FICTION

It is a know fact that the movie Sleepers is fictional. Regretfully, the following is a word-for-word copy of an article that is very truthful.

Hundreds claim decades of abuse by 150 youth center staffers in New Hampshire:

Abuse allegations against a state-run youth detention center span six decades, and 150 staffers are accused of physically or sexually harming 230 children at the facility, which the plaintiffs' attorney calls a "magnet for predators."
Rus Rilee sued the state in January 2020 on behalf of three dozen adults who alleged they were abused as children at the Youth Development Center in Manchester from 1982 to 2014. He now represents 230 clients who say they were abused from 1963 to 2018, when they were ages 7 to 18.
As the number of years, accusers and alleged perpetrators has swelled, so has the sickening nature of the allegations. Though details beyond the updated number of accusers and time span aren't included in latest court documents, Rilee plans to add his clients' accounts to the complaint and described them to The Associated Press:
Of the 150 accused staffers, more than half are accused of sexual abuse, Rilee said.
Children were gang raped by counselors and forced to sexually abuse each other, he said. Some contracted sexually transmitted diseases; one ended up pregnant.
Staff members choked children, beat them unconscious, burned them with cigarettes and broke their bones, Rilee said. Counselors set up "fight clubs" and forced kids to compete for food. Children were locked in solitary confinement for weeks or months, sometimes shackled or strapped naked to their beds. Kept away from classrooms while their injuries healed, some can't read or write, he said.
"These broken, shattered children were then unleashed into society with no education, no life skills and no ability to meaningfully function," Rilee said.
The Manchester facility, now called the Sununu Youth Services Center after former Gov. John Sununu, serves children ordered to a secure institutional setting by the juvenile justice system. The average population last year was just 17 residents overseen by about 90 employees, though it once housed upward of 100 youths and employed a larger staff.

Joseph Ribsam, director of the state Division for Children, Youth and Families, said the agency is cooperating with a broad criminal investigation into the center launched by the attorney general's office in 2019. He did not comment on the new allegations.
"The facility's policies and systems that protect the youth receiving care include full compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act and security cameras throughout the facility to provide additional sets of eyes on staff and student interactions," Ribsam said in a written statement.
The lawsuit alleges that some supervisors were abusers and that other staffers looked the other way.
"The systemic, governmental child abuse that occurred was allowed to occur because there wasn't sufficient oversight, and the state was institutionally negligent in their hiring, training, supervision and retention polices," Rilee said. "It's pretty clear to me that this facility was a magnet for predators."
Rilee said most of his clients have spoken to state police as part of the criminal investigation, including one man who spent two years at the facility in the late 2000s.
The man, 28, alleged that he was sexually assaulted by two staffers more than half a dozen times, was beaten by six staff members at once and often locked in his room for a week at a time. He said he has been in and out of the criminal justice system most of his life and has struggled with depression, strained relationships and a warped sense of socially acceptable behavior.