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Fourth former youth center detention worker goes on trial in New Hampshire
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The first of multiple sexual assault trials started Wednesday for a man whose arrest more than five years ago thrust allegations of widespread abuse at New Hampshire's state-run youth detention center into the public eye. Former youth counselor Stephen Murphy, 55, of Danvers, Massachusetts, faces 16 charges involving four boys held at the Youth Development Center in Manchester in the late 1990s. In the current case, he faces one charge of aggravated felonious sexual assault alleging that he helped carry a 14-year-old boy through a building and raped him in a stairwell while several coworkers restrained the teen. Murphy's accuser, Michael Gilpatrick, already has testified twice about the allegations — first at a civil trial involving another former youth center resident and again at a criminal trial for Brad Asbury, the man he said held him down. He ...
