The Glen Mills Schools in Glen Mills, Delaware County.
Matt Rourke / The Associated Press
More lawsuits filed against nation’s oldest reform school
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The Associated Press
Matt Rourke / The Associated Press
The Glen Mills Schools in Glen Mills, Delaware County.
(Philadelphia) — Five more lawsuits have been filed against the nation’s oldest reform school, a Philadelphia-area institution that now faces more than a dozen suits alleging abuse.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 13 lawsuits have been filed recently against now-shuttered Glen Mills Schools, a 193-year-old campus for court-ordered boys in Delaware County.
All students were ordered removed and the school’s licenses were revoked after an Inquirer investigation detailed decades of alleged abuse and cover-ups.
A Glen Mills spokesman called the allegations “heartbreaking.”
He said attorneys are evaluating them as Glen Mills Schools “continues to cooperate” with governmental authorities.
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