A former youth detention center resident testifies about ‘hit squad’ attack

A former resident of New Hampshire’s youth detention center testified Thursday that his house leader and another staffer restrained him a stairwell while two other workers sexually assaulted him. The four members of what he and other teens called “the hit squad” then carried him back to his room and tossed him in, he said. “It felt like I hovered over and watched it,” Michael Gilpatrick said, wiping away tears in Rockingham Superior Court.