In another report from the Los Angeles Daily News, twenty women submitted legal documents in court, making allegations against at least 10 Los Angeles County probation officers and staff members, claiming they were subjected to sexual abuse, harassment, and rape during their time as minors at Camp Joseph Scott in Santa Clarita.

The lawsuit, which has yet to be officially filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, asserts that the abuses occurred between 1996 and 2001 at this juvenile detention facility, which housed young individuals convicted of criminal offenses and was operated by the county Probation Department. Camp Scott was subsequently closed in 2020, and at the time of these alleged incidents, it accommodated females aged 12 to 18.

The court papers submitted by the plaintiffs state that this legal action aims to vindicate the rights of numerous women who were sexually abused, harassed, and molested by Los Angeles County deputy probation officers and employees.

According to the plaintiffs, sexual harassment, assault, and rape by deputy probation officers acting as guards were widespread and went unaddressed by supervisors.

The alleged abuses, as per the plaintiffs' court documents, were carried out solely to fulfill the alleged perpetrators' sexual desires at the expense of vulnerable and defenseless juveniles.

The attorney representing the plaintiffs emphasized that this case sheds light on an alleged culture of child sexual abuse that has persisted within the Los Angeles County juvenile probation system for many decades. He asserted that vulnerable children often enter the system due to prior abuse suffered at home or on the streets and argued that the probation system should provide restorative justice rather than perpetuating a cycle of abuse. A call for accountability for those who used their positions of authority to assault these children sexually and for those who enabled them.

The Los Angeles County probation officers are responsible for the well-being of approximately 3,000 youths in 21 halls and camps, making it one of the largest juvenile justice systems in the nation. The plaintiffs allege that over the past two decades, Probation Department facilities have faced numerous allegations of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and rape of both male and female boys and girls by officers and employees.

The plaintiffs' court documents claim that as a result of the alleged abuses, the victims now struggle with trust issues concerning males and authority figures, have difficulties with interpersonal relationships, experience physical symptoms such as nausea and headaches, suffer from flashbacks, and have trouble sleeping.