In 2014, the Bruce Normile Juvenile Justice Center was named a “model site” by Missouri’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Institute, one that set an example for how jurisdictions could rehabilitate juvenile offenders and help troubled children and teens.
Now, the Missouri facility and several of its employees are named as defendants in a federal lawsuit filed in St. Louis Oct. 11, alleging that one of its counselors sexually assaulted a resident, and other employees systemically failed to take action or report it.…