FORT LAUDERDALE —
The Southern Poverty Law Center sued youth offender and treatment facility Thompson Academy in Pembroke Pines, its operator, Youth Services International of Sarasota, and the state on behalf of two teens, alleging civil rights violations.
The lawsuit filed in federal court Friday alleges that one boy, identified only by the initials D.B., 15, of Boca Raton, was sexually assaulted twice this year by a Thompson Academy staffer. As a result, according to the lawsuit, D.B. tried to commit suicide on three occasions by drinking bleach and hanging.
On Friday morning, Broward Judge Elijah Williams released D.B. from the remaining three weeks of his sentence at Thompson Academy, to his mother's home.
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