AL.com: Alabama youth home staff instigated fights, gambled with residents as teen was brutalized, lawsuit claims

August 27, 2024 AL.com: Alabama youth home staff instigated fights, gambled with residents as teen was brutalized, lawsuit claims
Programs Mentioned: Brighter Path Tuskegee (previously Sequel Tuskegee)
Staff Mentioned: executive director Theresa Mitchell
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Author: Carol Robinson

Triggers: medical neglect, descriptions of physical assaults and injuries, suicide

The father of a 17-year-old survivor filed a lawsuit against Brighter Path Tuskegee on his son’s behalf

“M.C” says that he was severely physically and emotionally abused and neglected while at Brighter Path Tuskegee

Attorneys for M.C.: Tommy James (Tommy James Law), Jeremy Knowles (Morris Haynes), Walter McGowan (Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray, Gray, & Nathanson), Caleb Cunningham (Levin, Papantonio, and Levin)

M.C. was repeatedly, severely physically assaulted by other residents. Staff did not intervene or protect him.

M.C. did not receive appropriate medical treatment for injuries that came from physical assaults