Child Abuse

Three disabled Kern County, California, teens claim in a <strong><a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Kern-Co.pdf">federal class action</a></strong> that juvenile-detention staffers abused them with pepper spray, prolonged solitary confinement, excessive force, painful prone restraint holds and denial of education.

FRESNO, Calif. — Three disabled Kern County, California, teens claim in a federal class action that juvenile-detention staffers abused them with pepper spray, prolonged solitary confinement, excessive force, painful prone restraint holds and denial of education.

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