Levy Konigsberg Files Lawsuits on Behalf of 13 Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused as Children at New Jersey's Arthur Brisbane Child Treatment Center

Levy Konigsberg Attorneys Clark Binkley and Kiersten Holms have filed lawsuits on behalf of thirteen men and women who suffered sexual abuse when they were confined as children at a state-run psychiatric hospital, bringing the total number of claims alleging sexual abuse at New Jersey's youth facilities to 150.

NEW YORK, April 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Levy Konigsberg has filed a lawsuit this week against the State of New Jersey, alleging that the state failed to protect children from rampant sexual abuse at Arthur Brisbane Child Treatment Center, a state-run children's psychiatric hospital. The lawsuits, brought on behalf of 13 men and women who were abused as children at this facility, are the latest in a string of New Jersey youth facility abuse lawsuits spearheaded by Levy Konigsberg.

As detailed in the lawsuit, the Arthur Brisbane Child Treatment Center was a site of trauma and neglect for generations of New Jersey's most vulnerable children. Decades of investigations revealed widespread abuse, overcrowding, and cruelty at the facility, until it was forced to close in 2005 under a wave of controversy. The children harmed by the culture of abuse that the State allowed to flourish carry their wounds to this day.

The lawsuit filed by Levy Konigsberg was brought under New Jersey's Child Sexual Abuse Act ("CSAA"), a 2019 law that expanded the statute of limitations for filing civil lawsuits in cases of child sexual abuse. Most of the survivors seeking justice in these lawsuits were abused many years ago, some as far back as the 1980s, suffering in silence until their claims were finally made possible by the CSAA. Since January 2024, numerous survivors have filed lawsuits alleging similar abuse at New Jersey's juvenile detention facilities, including the New Jersey Training Schools at Jamesburg and Skillman.

This brings the total number of Levy Konigsberg clients bringing claims against the State of New Jersey for sexual abuse in state-run youth facilities to 150. Given the growing volume of sex abuse lawsuits against the state, Levy Konigsberg has filed an application with the Supreme Court requesting that a multicounty litigation be established for centralized management of these cases.

In announcing this week's filings, Levy Konigsberg Partner Clark Binkley stated:

"Our courageous clients were sent to Arthur Brisbane as vulnerable children in need of care and support. Instead, the state looked the other way while they and countless other children were subjected to horrific abuse. The time for justice is decades overdue."

Levy Konigsberg has filed hundreds of lawsuits on behalf of survivors of sexual abuse nationwide, and is at the forefront of CSAA litigation in New Jersey, having filed some of the first lawsuits about the widespread sexual abuse in New Jersey's youth treatment and detention facilities. In January 2024, The Associated Press covered Levy Konigsberg's initial lawsuit on behalf of 50 men who were abused at Jamesburg. Interested parties can read the article here.

Levy Konigsberg represents over 225 survivors of sexual abuse at New Jersey's youth facilities and plans to continue fighting tirelessly on their behalf.

For additional information about childhood sexual abuse lawsuits spearheaded by Levy Konigsberg, media members and journalists are encouraged to reach out to Attorney Moshe Maimon by using the law firm's contact form: https://www.levylaw.com/contact-us/

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