Staff at Pennsylvania juvenile facility held ‘private parties’ where young people were sexually abused: lawsuit

PHILADELPHIA — Two young people who were held at the Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center in Lima — a facility that’s been temporarily shuttered in response to allegations of sexual, physical and psychological abuse — filed suit against county and state agencies Wednesday. In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Philadelphia, one girl said guards at the facility brought her to “private parties” where she was given alcohol and drugs and was then sexually abused when she was as young as 16. A second plaintiff in the lawsuit alleged that at age 16 he, too, was raped by a staff member who t...