A man who oversaw staff training and investigations at New Hampshires youth detention center

BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A man who oversaw staff training and investigations at New Hampshire’s youth detention center testified Monday that top-level administrators sided with staff against residents, while lower-level workers wanted to punish kids for speaking up. Virgil Bossom returned to the witness stand Monday, the fourth day of a civil trial seeking to hold the state accountable for child abuse at the Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly the called the Youth Development Center, in Manchester. David Meehan, the plaintiff, argues the state’s negligence in hiring and training led him to be repeatedly beaten, raped and locked in solitary confinement for three years in the late 1990s.