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.
at Camp Scott and other probation facilities. It alleges that detention officers not only abused teenage girls, but also raped boys, and in some cases, female staff forced the same boys into sex acts.
The female probation officer repeatedly promised Roe “she was going to help him get out, but don’t tell nobody,” he said, adding that she slipped him gifts such as a hairbrush and other hard-to-get items. He said that as a teen from South Los Angeles, he thought at the time he was alone, but he now knows there are hundreds of other accusers.
Even before the latest lawsuit, L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn called the accusations “stomach-turning.” Esché Jackson, the commission’s vice chair who was incarcerated in Central, Padrinos and Nidorf for two years as a youth, said at a recent hearing that the abuse allegations hit close to home as she knew girls victimized by those meant to protect them.
Jane PS Roe said in the suit that in 1999, when she was 15, a probation officer identified as James Petty groped her repeatedly in his office at Camp Scott and sometimes handcuffed her to the chair so she could not resist his attacks. He sent her to “the hole” if she resisted, she said, which happened four or five times, according to documents filed the suit.
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