Supervision of the staff was laissez faire at best and at worst supervisory staff actively condoned the abuse and protected the abusers.” “Retaliation and suppression of complaints were common. “It was common for the female staff at Green Hill School to engage in sexually inappropriate relationships with the residents, who were routinely minors,” the lawsuit claims. “A culture of sexually inappropriate behavior by both guards and staff” has “pervaded” the school for many years, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in King County Superior Court on Feb. “They have the keys to these young mens’ freedom.”

“They are victims, and they don’t have the ability to consent,” Tesh told The Daily Beast. O-H-“witnessed other residents being sexually assaulted by staff.”

In addition to his two allegations against counselors at the facility, the victim-identified in the suit only as C. He was 16 years old when the alleged abuses started. Tesh’s client, a now-21-year-old former inmate at the facility, says he was sexually assaulted by two counselors from 2013 to 2015, and that the state’s Department of Social and Health Services “protected” the abusers.