Juvenile Sentencing

A man, now 19, sued the Youth Development Institute and the doctor who “prepared and issued a written report diagnosing him as ‘Sexual Abuse (Perpetrator)’” because when he was 15 he exchanged “<a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Juvenile-sentencing.pdf"><strong>consensual text messages</strong></a> with a female classmate that her parents deemed inappropriate;” he seeks punitive damages, in Maricopa County Court.

PHOENIX — A man, now 19, sued the Youth Development Institute and the doctor who “prepared and issued a written report diagnosing him as ‘Sexual Abuse (Perpetrator)’” because when he was 15 he exchanged “consensual text messages with a female classmate that her parents deemed inappropriate.” He seeks punitive damages, in Maricopa County Court.

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