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A former resident of the Cresson secure treatment unit now closed for minors, has filed a federal process that claims that he was sexually abused by a staff member when he was incarcerated there at 17.

The trial was filed on Thursday at the US District Court in Johstown and now becomes the second complaint against the operator of the installation, the justice institute in Needham Heights, Massachusetts.

The company, called JRI, operated the contract in contract with the Pennsylvania Public Assistance Department.

An audit of the installation published in 2011 by the general auditor Jack Wagner indicated that JRI was under contract with the State for Personnel and operated the treatment unit that had 52 beds, including a 13 -bed unit designed for the treatment of emotionally disturbed offenders.

The audit concluded: “The treatment program used at Cresson Secure United Treatment is firmly founded in the balanced and restaurant justice model in which each employed youth is held responsible for his actions and encouraged to accept responsibility for his behavior.”

The facility, said the audit, offered individual counseling and family counseling.

He offered a education program provided through the intermediate unit Appalachian.

The Cresson unit, located in correction road, was closed in 2015.

The Lawsuit, Filed Thursday by Pittsburgh Attorney Jason E. Luckasevic, Presenteed A Different View of the Facility, notting that a department of justice report in 2010 Reported then the Cresson Secure Treatment Unit “Had Some of Highest of Sexual Sexual Victimization Record Youth detainees three times more than the national average. “

Luckasevic in October last year filed a process in which two former residents of the installation complained about the sexual abuse they experienced at the unit.

The process was recently modified to include a single plaintiff, but now a second trial has been filed in Johnstown on behalf of another alleged victim.

The individual who submitted the process was mentioned only by his initials – a protection offered to victims of sexual abuse on children – explained the process.

The accusation is that the minor spent a year at Cresson unit and then was released.

He accuses that a member of the female staff usually leads to a portion of the hall leading to the outside of the installation where there was “blind spot” or an area that is not covered by the security rooms of the installation, and there he touches him inappropriately.

She would bring her food and tobacco to respect abuse.

“The defendants knew or should have known that (the abuser) sexually abusing children at Cresson Secure Center treatment,” the trial said.

The abuse caused injury to the adolescent, who “will continue to request counseling, therapy and another treatment,” according to federal petition.

It perceives JRI with civil negligence, negligent supervision of staff, negligent employment, training and staff and violation of the fiduciary debt (to avoid injuring children).

Look for over $ 50,000 for each number.

District judge Stephanie L. Haines ordered Jri to respond to the first trial until April 3.