Judge quickly denies request to discard $38 million verdict in New Hampshire youth center abuse case
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Judge Andrew Schulman, who oversaw a NH youth detention center trial, has refused to discard the verdict awarding $38 million in damages to David Meehan, who alleged he was abused at the center.
In a motion filed Monday, attorneys for the state again argued that Meehan waited too long to sue and that he failed to prove that the state’s negligence led to abuse. Schulman swiftly denied the motion, ruling in less than 24 hours that Meehan’s claims were timely under an exception to the statute of limitations, and that Meehan had proven "beyond doubt" that the state breached its duty of care with respect to staff training, supervision and discipline.
According to Schulman, a jury could easily have found that the facility’s leadership "was, at best, willfully blind to entrenched and endemic customs and practices" that included frequent sexual and physical assaults as well as "constant emotional abuse of residents."
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