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Underaged Victims That Suffered From Sexual Abuse at Maclaren Hall Children’s Center Can Finally Receive Justice And Compensation

Underaged Victims That Suffered From Sexual Abuse at Maclaren Hall Children’s Center Can Finally Receive Justice And Compensation

The families of children subjected to unreported sexual abuse at Los Angeles’ MacLaren Children’s Center are urged to request a free, private case evaluation.

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The History of Abuses of Students at the Hands of MacLaren Children’s Center Staff

MacLaren Hall, also called Mac Hall, was an institution for children in Los Angeles, California that housed over 4,000 juvenile children and non-delinquent minors in the 1960s.

Over the next six decades, MacLaren Hall would be home to tens of thousands of children:

  • The poorly staffed and underfunded facility quickly became overcrowded
  • Children frequently ran away, violence was common
  • The facility was notoriously overcrowded.

Many reports by former residents of over-medication, beatings, restraints, confinement to a small punishment room, rape, and other forms of sexual assault make Mac Hall a supposedly dangerous and traumatizing place.

Children removed from their homes due to abuse were housed with the mentally ill, emotionally disturbed and children facing criminal charges–the lack of supportive services and inadequate staff, made conditions worse.

In 2003, it closed in disgrace, and some of its former inhabitants began speaking out about sexual abuse at the facility.

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Specific Allegations of Abuse in the History of Maclaren Children's Center

Abuse was widespread at Maclaren, and the facility was seriously understaffed or inadequately trained–not trained to work with youth with mental health issues and special needs.

Two women, identified as Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 in a lawsuit filed against Los Angeles county, are now 54 and 61 years old, respectively–they allege that while housed at MacLaren they were subjected to forced vaginal intercourse, oral sex, digital penetration, groping and other sexual abuses.

In its lawsuit to close down MacLaren, ACLU accused Los Angeles County and the State of California of several broad failures at MacLaren Hall, including:

  • Over reliance on MacLaren Hall as a semi-permanent rather than temporary housing unit
  • Lack of professional training for MacLaren Hall’s staff and other social workers
  • Favoring money-saving decisions over those in the best interests of children
  • Children in need of mental health treatment received no appropriate treatment or only treatment once per week
  • Merely documenting the mental health needs of children rather than focusing on providing care

The Shield Legal Network team believes that victims of sexual abuse should be able to address Maclaren Hall Children’s Center and get compensation and justice.

The California Assembly Bill 218 legislation opened a three-year window allowing sexual abuse victims of any age to file civil lawsuits no matter when the abuse occurred, or if their alleged abuser is alive or dead
2020

The facility finally shut its doors after a class action lawsuit was filed by a resident
2003

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