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A lawsuit claims 136 young people were sexually abused at San Bernardino County juvenile detention facilities, exposing systemic failures in facility safety and oversight.
A lawsuit claims 136 young people experienced sexual abuse across San Bernardino County juvenile detention facilities, alleging systematic failures in basic safety and oversight. The scale—136 victims across a county system—suggests the problem wasn't a handful of bad actors but pervasive gaps in how the facilities operated.
Facility leadership and county oversight both failed to catch or stop the abuse, which is why the suit exists. The number alone shows this wasn't an outlier situation. Juvenile detention is supposed to be rehabilitative custody, not a place where kids are regularly assaulted. When a county system fails at that basic function for 136 young people, it's a failure of the entire supervisory structure.
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