Former Maryland juvenile detention center employee sexually abused 69 boys, lawsuit claims

Sixty-nine men have filed a lawsuit that alleges a staff member at a state-run juvenile detention facility in Baltimore County sexually abused them when they were children as the government looked the other way.

Ronald Neverdon held various titles at the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School on Old Harford Road, including unit manager and housing supervisor from the mid-1960s to mid-1990s, the lawsuit asserts, and victimized children at the center and other locations.

Neverdon, the lawsuit claims, gave them special privileges, provided them with money, drugs and expensive gifts and threatened to punish them if they disclosed the abuse.

The men "still endure the consequences of his abuse" and "remain trapped in the past," according to the lawsuit.

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