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    Nearly 300 sue over alleged sexual abuse at LA County juvenile halls and camps

    by Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times Dec 27, 2022 5 minutes
    LA County's Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, in Los Angeles, CA..

    LOS ANGELES — For five decades, boys and girls in Los Angeles County juvenile camps and detention halls have suffered repeated sexual assaults at the hands of probation and detention officers, according to a lawsuit filed by nearly 300 former detainees.

    Page after page of the 359-page lawsuit filed Dec. 20 details allegations of systemic failures and horrific scenes of sexual abuse that lawyers say went unchecked by the L.A. County Probation Department, which operates the camps and halls.

    Attorneys for the 279 plaintiffs say some of the boys and girls were victimized by more than one officer, and some officers are accused of being serial abusers, repeatedly finding new victims among those sent to the facilities over the years.

    The lawsuit states that not only were the plaintiffs minors, they also were incarcerated,

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