Father: Fort Bend volunteer at a juvenile detention center sexually abused his son hundreds of times
The father of a teen held at Fort Bend County Juvenile Detention Center says officials failed to protect his son from a volunteer who allegedly sexually assaulted the boy hundreds of times during one-on-one visits, including attacks captured on video by guards.
Supervisors became aware of the situation between the mentor and the boy, then 17, after about a year. The staff cut off the visits after witnessing physical contact on video in May 2018, and Deborah Helen Sutter, 64, of Rosenberg, the volunteer mentor assigned to the boy, was arrested and charged with two counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact.
Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls has called the case “disturbing and disgusting,” and labeled Sutter, who had passed a background check, as “a predator” who took advantage of a vulnerable child.
Even in the wake of the arrest, however, Nehls did not take the boy’s needs into consideration, according to a civil rights lawsuit the father filed this week in Houston federal court. The lawsuit accuses multiple officials of neglecting their obligation to address the teen’s physical safety and medical and psychiatric needs. The father filed under the name John Doe, sued on behalf of his son, Frank Thomas, also a pseudonym. Both live in Harris County.
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