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Fund urged for sex abuse victims at youth detention center

By HOLLY RAMER
Associated Press

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella says spending $100 million to settle sexual abuse claims at the state’s youth detention center is the right thing to do for both victims and the government. The House Finance Committee held a public hearing Thursday on a bipartisan bill that would create a fund to compensate people abused as children at the Sununu Youth Services Center. The Manchester center has been the target of a criminal investigation since 2019, and 11 former workers were arrested in April. Nearly 450 former residents have sued with allegations involving more than 150 staffers from 1963 to 2018. 

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