Newsroom category: Exploited Teens News

Staff in an Alabama youth home stand accused of instigating violent fights between residents and failing to protect one resident from physical, verbal, and emotional abuse by other residents and staff. Attorneys have filed a lawsuit on behalf of the father of the teenage victim. The complaint details horrific abuse, alleging that the facility’s staff […]

Attorneys who pushed legislators to compensate abuse victims at Florida youth “reform schools” of the past urge lawyers to stop history from repeating itself in residential treatment facilities of the present. Governor Ron DeSantis has signed the Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation bill (HB 21), initiating a $20 million allocation to […]

The report on abuses in youth residential treatment facilities highlights two lawsuits in which LPR Attorney Caleb Cunningham represents victims of abuse and discrimination. On Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Finance published its report “Warehouses of Neglect: How Taxpayers Are Funding Systemic Abuse in Youth Residential Treatment Facilities.” The report references two lawsuits against residential […]