The departure of 2 Prosecutors for the New Hampshire Youth Development Center abuse cases smacks of another cover-up by the State. The departure was announced shortly after the State discovered millions of documents about the Youth Detention Center.
One of the prosecutors, Tim Sullivan, had been the head of the task force set up by the Attorney General’s Office to investigate the Youth Detention Center abuse. Neither he nor Nicole Mazur, the other lead prosecutor, would provide a comment to news journalists about the reason for their departure.
The Youth Detention Center abuse has been going on for years. Complaints about it have also been going on for years. Reports of cover ups, deletion of files have been in the news for the last several years and yet former attorneys general have never done anything about it. The only reason they are forced to do something about it now is because of Russ Riley’s failed class action lawsuit against the State which apparently triggered arrests of staffers from the YDC and 800 individual lawsuits against the State by alleged victims of abuse.
Moira O’Neill who was hired in a newly formed Office of Child Advocate a couple of years ago, provided reports which the State could not deny. She did not renew her contract. What did she discover about State officials and their complicity in the abuse and cover ups?
Gordon MacDonald, currently the New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice, was Attorney General when Russ Riley’s class action suit against the State and Youth Detention Center was filed and rejected for “victim negligence”. Gordon MacDonald was Attorney General when he “considered his options” to block the release of a list of police officers with credibility issues – the “Laurie List” – which had approximately 280 names on it. Gordon MacDonald also represented Purdue Pharma when it was sued by the State of New Hampshire. He managed to block and external audit of millions of Purdue’s internal documents just as he was about to become Attorney General.
Geoffrey Ward, Assistant Attorney General currently and during Gordon MacDonald’s tenure as Attorney General, deleted the files of 28 police officers on the eve of the list becoming public pursuant to a bill passed last year.
Geoffrey Ward has stonewalled inquiries about police corruption. How many police officers were involved in framing children who ended up being prosecuted and being put in the youth detention center?
The New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence is straddling both sides of this mess. They endorsed the nomination of Paul Halvorsen, a Juvenile Prosecutor, as DA for Merrimack County while siding with a sexual assault worker in a smear lawsuit (filed by Chuck Douglas for Jennifer Adams) against DA Robin Davis who allegedly had issues with the police’s tainted investigations and too close relationship with prosecutors.
The NHCADSV works closely with the DCYF which has admitted to deleting files of sexual assault and yet the NHCADSV never took a stand against the DCYF for doing this.
Now the NHCADSV is working with David Vicinanzo, former partner of Gordon MacDonald at Nixon Peabody when they (Vicinanzo and MacDonald) collectively represented the Diocese of Manchester for hundreds of quick settlements for lawsuits filed by Chuck Douglas Esq, who had been New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice just a few years earlier. Vicinanzo and MacDonald worked with Monsignor Edward Arsenault, who pled guilty in 2014 to defrauding the Diocese, stealing from a dead priest’s estate and from a hospital (Catholic Medical Center, I believe) for which he was responsible for increasing profits (couldn’t be from Purdue Pharma could it?).
When Chuck Douglas was New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice, he ordered a 13-year-old girl back to the Youth Detention Center after being raped and impregnated. He is currently Chair of the Judicial Selection Committee. He also advertised for victims of the Youth Detention Center to be his clients.
Could it be that the two prosecutors resigned from the YDC case because to continue would expose the knowledge of abuse by New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice, former Attorneys General, assistant Attorneys General, current US Attorney Jane Young, former US Attorney Scott Murray, the DCYF, NHCADSV, present and former Governors and attorneys Chuck Douglas, David Vicinanzo, Shaheen & Gordon?
The State and its officials can no longer cover up crimes against children, abuse of public funds and abuse of public trust. A fish stinks from the head. This multi-headed fish wreaks.
It is quite clear from the statements from the Merrimack County Superior Court plea hearing in November 2019 of 17 year old Griffin Furlotte that public officials, police, administrators, NHCADSV think that lying to, stalking, bullying, force-feeding minors with fabricated tales is acceptable in order to gain convictions. And that this is a practice used by the State’s agencies as ammunition to apply for federal grants and to then misappropriate those federal grants while forcing kids and young adults into horrifically abusive environments for which the state also obtains federal funding.
Who are the real culprits behind the abuse of children and young adults in New Hampshire’s Youth Detention Center and other state facilities? Start with the Attorney General’s Office (pre-John Formella who bravely addressed the issue) and the State Agencies who receive federal grants under Title IV or for sex abuse or domestic violence.
Anna Carrigan was a whistleblower. Her suit against New Hampshire for child neglect via its state agencies was rejected at the New Hampshire Supreme Court. It should be re-opened in light of the YDC abuse revelations, and those complicit in covering up the records or having knowledge of the cover ups should be charged and prosecuted. https://www.thenewroadproject.org/
