Hundreds alleged assault by youth detention workers. Years later, most suspects face no charges
Zach Robinson spent decades trying to fight off nightmares about being raped as a child at New Hampshire’s youth detention center. He died last month, still waiting for accountability for his alleged abusers.
“I know that I’ll never forget about what happened,” he said in early 2021. “But just knowing it’s out there and getting the relief of getting it off my shoulders I hope will limit the amount I re-live it.”
More than a thousand men and women allege they were physically or sexually abused as children at the Sununu Youth Service Center between 1960 and 2019.
But only 11 men have been arrested, none in the last 2½ years, despite a state police task force investigation stretching back more than four years.
Authorities cite the statute of limitations as one analysis of 1,100 lawsuits.
