Lawsuit Alleges ‘Systematic’ Abuse at Youth Treatment Facility Run by Man Commuted by Former President Trump

The boy was no more than 12 years old, when around 1995, his licensed therapeutic counselor at The Lord’s Ranch, a residential psychiatric treatment facility in rural Arkansas, asked him if he wanted to drive his car.

The boy said “yes.”

But once the boy was in the driver’s seat, the counselor “began to grab his thighs and grope him,” a 55-page civil complaint filed in the Northern Division of the Eastern District of Arkansas’s federal court and obtained by PEOPLE claims.

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