A youth detention center in Kentucky was sued this week on allegations it operated a house of horrors that “violate the Geneva Convention,” which included claims it forced children into solitary confinement for extended periods and used forms of apparent psychiatric torture.
The mistreatment allegedly occurred inside the Adair County Youth Detention Center, in rural southern Kentucky. The lawsuit said that naked bodies of girls were “exposed to male view” on multiple occasions, including during cell checks and showers.
Other detainees, which were all younger than 18, were forced to spend weeks in solitary confinement, the lawsuit claimed, with one child alleging their cell’s window to the outside was covered while the Spanish version of “Baby Shark” played on a loop.