Defense seeks to undermine accuser’s credibility in New Hampshire youth center sex abuse case
Associated PressCONCORD, N.H. — Lawyers for a man charged with raping a teenage girl at a youth holding facility in New Hampshire tried to erode the accuser’s credibility at trial Wednesday, suggesting she had a history of lying and changing her story. “I didn’t think it would matter to anyone … so I kept it in for a long time.” The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they were sexually assaulted unless they have come forward publicly, as Maunsell has done. It is the first criminal trial arising from a five-year investigation into allegations of abuse at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, though unlike the other eight men facing charges, Malavet worked at a different state-run facility where children were held while awaiting court disposition of their cases. While attorneys for the state spent much of Meehan’s trial portraying him as a violent child, troublemaking teenager and a delusional adult, state prosecutors are relying on Mansell’s testimony in the criminal case.
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