More than 200 men and women allege they were sexually abused as children while in custody at youth detention centers in Illinois. Three new lawsuits have been filed in Illinois. They're the latest complaints filed by attorneys who say the problem of sexual abuse of children by staff is systemic in Illinois facilities.
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Overall, 667 people have alleged they were sexually abused as children at youth facilities run by the state and Cook County in lawsuits filedBuffalo beats No. 23 Northern Illinois 23-20 on Bellenfant’s field goal in OT The lawsuit with the largest number of plaintiffs, 222 men and women who are mostly Illinois residents, details abuse at nine state-run youth detention centers, of which five have since closed. The accounts documented in the complaint’s more than 400 pages are hauntingly similar.
Several plaintiffs independently described sexual and physical abuse from a chaplain at state facility in the Chicago suburb of St. Charles. Another lawsuit, focusing on a troubled Chicago youth detention facility, was filed in Cook County court and names the county.
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