YDC Survivor Maunsell Settles With State for $4.5 Million

Second YDC plaintiff agrees to settlement. Natasha Maunsell to get $4.5 million

A woman who filed a lawsuit against the state for alleged abuse by a youth counselor while being held at a juvenile detention center in Concord in the early 2000s has agreed to settle with the state for $4.5 million.

YDC Survivor Maunsell Settles With State for $4.5 Million

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org YDC sexual abuse survivor Natasha Maunsell is getting $4.5 million from the state in a settlement finalized weeks before her civil trial was set to begin. Maunsell claims that she was raped dozens of times by Youth Development Services Unit staffer Victor Malavet starting in 2001 when she was 15. Malavet, 62, is charged with several felonies for the alleged abuse, but the first trial last year ended in a hung jury…

Survivors of YDC abuse call for more state money; lawmaker wants audit - NH Business Review

The administration building at the former Youth Development Center in Manchester. (Photo by Jason Moon/NH Public Radio) New Hampshire Senate President Sharon Carson is calling for a financial and performance audit of the settlement fund for abuse victims at the state’s youth detention center. “The financial condition of the YDC fund has sparked deep concern regarding the processes employed to resolve cases and called into doubt whether victims a…