Levy Konigsberg and co-counsel have filed lawsuits on behalf of over 60 men and women who suffered sexual abuse when they were confined as children across more than a dozen juvenile detention and residential treatment facilities in Pennsylvania . NEW YORK , Oct. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Levy Konigsberg and co-counsel have filed dozens of lawsuits today on behalf of survivors of childhood sexual abuse, alleging that juvenile detention and residential treatment facilities across Pennsylvania failed to protect the vulnerable children in their care.
The lawsuits, brought on behalf of over 60 men and women who were abused as children at a range of public and private facilities, is the latest in a string of sexual abuse lawsuits spearheaded by Levy Konigsberg in Pennsylvania and across the country. Levy Konigberg has now filed more than 200 cases in the past five months on behalf of men and women who suffered childhood sexual abuse at juvenile detention and residential treatment centers in Pennsylvania . The lawsuits cover a wide range of youth detention and treatment facilities, including several run by Universal Health Services (UHS), a major behavioral healthcare provider with over 400 locations nationwide.
UHS was one of four such companies recently investigated by the U.S. Senate, culminating in the June 2024 report, Warehouses of Neglect: How Taxpayers Are Funding Systemic Abuse in Youth Residential Treatment Facilities .
The Senate report identified numerous abuses at UHS fa.