SPOKANE, Wash. – Fifteen Washington residents who were previously incarcerated at the Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center testified that they were sexually abused by detention center guards in a lawsuit filed against Spokane County.

The lawsuit said that sexual abuse offenses committed by detention center guards were ongoing from 1983 to 2010.

The offenses include grooming and sexual abuse and were “brazen,” the lawsuit says. The lawsuit includes testimonies from former inmates who recounted how they were forced to endure acts of masturbation, oral sex, and vaginal and oral rape.

The residents were aged twelve to seventeen when they were abused, the lawsuit said.

Spokane Jury Complaint

Connelly Law Offices, a law group based in Spokane, filed the lawsuit and fifteen individuals

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