NY DAILY NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Bronx juvenile detention center sued over two decades of ‘countless reports’ on sexually abused inmates

A Bronx juvenile detention center has been marred by “countless” reports over nearly two decades that young inmates were sexually abused there, court papers allege.

Horizon Juvenile Center is the subject of an Aug. 30 lawsuit alleging female guards got boys drunk and sexually assaulted them.

“Ever since Horizon opened its doors to juvenile detainees,” in 1998, “Horizon has been the subject of countless reports of sexual and physical abuse of male and female juvenile detainees by Horizon employees,” the amended complaint filed Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court charges.

One of the accusers claimed in court papers that a Horizon employee contacted the city Department of Investigation about one of the guards — Natalie Medford — before she allegedly assaulted him.

The tipster told DOI that Medford was spotted “naked on top of the detainee inside of the detainee’s cell,” court papers state......

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