Sexual Abuse Cases in Los Angeles County
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Legal Help for Survivors of Sexual Abuse in Los Angeles County Juvenile Halls and Probation Camps
If you or someone close to you has suffered sexual abuse, neglect, or mistreatment in a Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall or Probation Camp, you may be eligible for financial compensation and justice. The Genie Harrison Law Firm, an award-winning law firm and recognized leader in victims’ rights in Los Angeles, is dedicated to fighting for survivors who have endured trauma in these environments.
Our experienced legal team is committed to holding juvenile detention facilities accountable for widespread issues such as sexual abuse, physical assault, poor living conditions, and inadequate mental health care. Many survivors have come forward to expose serious problems in juvenile facilities. We are here to ensure their voices are heard.
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Legal Help for Survivors of Sexual Abuse in Los Angeles County Juvenile Halls and Probation Camps
If you or someone close to you has suffered sexual abuse, neglect, or mistreatment in a Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall or Probation Camp, you may be eligible for financial compensation and justice. The Genie Harrison Law Firm, an award-winning law firm and recognized leader in victims’ rights in Los Angeles, is dedicated to fighting for survivors who have endured trauma in these environments.
Our experienced legal team is committed to holding juvenile detention facilities accountable for widespread issues such as sexual abuse, physical assault, poor living conditions, and inadequate mental health care. Many survivors have come forward to expose serious problems in juvenile facilities. we are here to ensure their voices are heard.
Hold LA County Juvenile Facilities Responsible for Sexual Abuse and Mistreatment
Latest News on Juvenile Hall Sex Abuse Cases in Los Angeles County
Woman testifies about alleged sexual abuse within LA County juvenile probation system
September 25, 2024 / By David Gonzalez, ABC News
Los Angeles County faced new allegations related to sexual abuse in its embattled juvenile detention facilities this week, the latest in a staggering tally of more than 5,000 adults who say they were abused as children in foster homes, shelters and probation-run camps and halls in recent decades.
A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court accuses probation officers of rape, forced oral copulation and groping of six youth from the late 1990s through 2017 — young people the employees were tasked with keeping safe. The case is one of about 2,300 now before the courts, following a loosening of the statute of limitations.
Sexual abuse allegations have been filed on behalf of survivors now in their 20s to 70s. One case is as recent as March, when a probation officer was arrested on charges of having sex with with a young person detained at the Dorothy Kirby Center in Commerce, a facility serving youth with significant mental health issues…
A Staggering Tally: Cases Alleging Sexual Abuse of Children in Los Angeles County Custody Now Number Thousands
July 12, 2024 / By Jeremy Loudenback, The Imprint
Los Angeles County faced new allegations related to sexual abuse in its embattled juvenile detention facilities this week, the latest in a staggering tally of more than 5,000 adults who say they were abused as children in foster homes, shelters and probation-run camps and halls in recent decades.
A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court accuses probation officers of rape, forced oral copulation and groping of six youth from the late 1990s through 2017 — young people the employees were tasked with keeping safe. The case is one of about 2,300 now before the courts, following a loosening of the statute of limitations.
Sexual abuse allegations have been filed on behalf of survivors now in their 20s to 70s. One case is as recent as March, when a probation officer was arrested on charges of having sex with with a young person detained at the Dorothy Kirby Center in Commerce, a facility serving youth with significant mental health issues…
Guards sexually assaulted 6 detained teens in CA, suit says. The survivors are suing.
July 10, 2024 / By Julia Marnin, The Sacramento Bee
Six people detained as teenagers in Los Angeles County juvenile detention facilities have filed a lawsuit, saying they were sexually abused by male and female probation officers, including one survivor who was 13 when he was violently raped in his cell. The other plaintiffs were between 14 and 16 years old during the abuse, according to the lawsuit, which mentions more than 20 separate instances of sexual assault spanning nearly two decades…
Reassigning probation officers to LA County juvenile halls leas to court delays, safety concerns
May 8, 2024 / By Jason Henry, Pasadena Star News
About 250 filed officers were reassigned in March to understaffed juvenile halls in a successful effort to prevent the closure of the county’s two largest facilities…
Some claim safety concerns with LA County juvenile hall staffing plan
April 25, 2024 / By Lolita Lopez, NBC Los Angeles
The union representing hundreds of deputy probation officers says the community is unsafe because officers are being moved from field office work to support staffing needs at LA County juvenile facilities. Two of Los Angeles County’s juvenile facilities were recently allowed to continue operating in part because they beefed up staffing…
Officials address sex abuse allegations in LA county juvenile probation camps
April 23, 2024 / By Rachel Hallett, Fox News
Officials wrote to the Department of Justice Tuesday expressing concerns over recent complaints regarding the safety and well-being of juveniles detained in probation camps across Los Angeles County. U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Laphonza Butler called for the DOJ to detail their recent and planned actions to address wrongdoings in the LA County probation camps…
Video shows L.A. probation officers letting group beat teen in Los Padrinos juvenile hall
April 12, 2024 / By James Qually and Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times
Several L.A. County probation officers stood by as at least six youths assaulted a 17-year-old inside Los Padrinos juvenile hall in December, with some officers appearing to laugh and shake hands with the assailants as the beating progressed, according to footage obtained by The Times…
LA County will keep juvenile detention centers open
April 11, 2024 / By Ashley Orona, LA Public Press
The decision also comes days after youth advocates shut down the LA County Board of Supervisors meeting demanding the supervisors release all youth from the detention centers and declare a state of emergency inside the juvenile halls…
Criminal filings reported at LA County juvenile facilities
March 14, 2024 / By Lolita Lopez, NBC Los Angeles
The NBC4 I-Team has learned there have been dozens of criminal filings from July 2023 through January of this year, according to a letter from the Los Angeles County Probation Department sent to the Probation Oversight Commission. There have been dozens of new criminal filings at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall since July 2023 when it re-opened through January of this year, according to a document from the Los Angeles County Probation Department sent to the Probation Oversight Commission. The document, obtained by the NBCLA I-Team, details 36 new cases for violations including assault and battery on a peace officer. The document states there were 13 assaults on detention officers by youth during that time period…
LA County probation officer arrested for having sex with juvenile in Custody
March 13, 2024 / By Jason Henry, Pasadena Star News
The female officer has been charged with sex with an inmate, bringing contraband into a jail, and unauthorized possession of a cellphone in a secured area. Nearly 600 people have now alleged in a series of lawsuits filed by one firm that they were sexually abused and harassed while in custody at Los Angeles County’s juvenile facilities…
Former inmates suing LA Department of Corrections alleging sexual abuse by prison staff
January 15, 2024 / By Leticia Juarez, ABC News
Dozens of women are suing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. They say they were sexually abused by prison staff while serving time at state prisons in Chino and Chowchilla. More than 130 former female inmates claim they were sexually abused by prison staff at California Institution for Women in Chino and Central California Women’s Facility located in Chowchilla…
Nearly 600 former detainees have sued LA County over sexual abuse in juvenile halls
June 16, 2023 / By Jason Henry, Corrections 1
The county could be forced to pay $1.6 billion to $3 billion for “more than 3,000 claims alleging childhood sexual assault at various County and non-County facilities”…
Lawsuit Details a Dozen Years of Sexual Abuse Inside Now-Closed L.A. Youth Detention Facility
March 11, 2022 / By Jeremy Loudenback, Imprint News
In a lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles County, survivors of “predatory” county probation employees describe rapes and other sexual assaults at a juvenile detention facility over more than a decade. The 69-page complaint filed in Superior Court Wednesday alleges that the offenders include at least 10 people working at the Camp Joseph Scott detention facility from 1996 to 2008.
The Santa Clarita juvenile camp shut down in 2020, but for decades, it housed girls 17 and younger who were typically detained for three- to nine-month terms following an arrest.
The allegations of abuse at the camp that have now come to light are disturbing. One teenager who was placed there in the late 1990s said in the court documents that she was forced to engage in sexual intercourse with a deputy probation officer two to three times a week throughout her stay at Camp Scott. After she became pregnant as a result of the sexual assault and had a miscarriage, he ordered her to keep it secret because he had “a way to make things go away.”
In the case of Jane ML Doe — a pseudonym used to protect her identity — a probation officer promised her special packages and extra phone time for sexual acts, the suit filed by a high-powered private law firm alleges. And after she left Camp Scott, it states, the officer continued contacting her and eventually took her to a motel for sex. Another woman reported that when she was alone as a teen in a laundry room with a probation officer, he told her that if she didn’t perform oral sex on him, he would make sure she would serve “double time” at Camp Scott and and that she “wouldn’t go home.”…