A new lawsuit filed on behalf of a 15-year-old foster boy sheds new light on how young people were treated at a now-shuttered Utah school for troubled youth.
The boy, identified only as Y.G. in the federal lawsuit lodged against Oregon officials who sent him to Red Rock Canyon School in St. George, alleges that staff members at the school knew he was being bullied and assaulted by older teens — but did nothing.
He was there during an April riot that left several teens injured, and the lawsuit alleges staffers allowed the violence to escalate and “encouraged some of the rioters to harm other children.