If You Let a Dog Bite You

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4.4 • 803 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Karen Lemoine didn’t arrive at YDC looking to start trouble. But the red flags she saw were hard to ignore, especially when it came to one kid in particular. What trying to do the right thing cost both of them – and why, 30 years later, they’re speaking up again. If you have suffered abuse and need someone to talk to, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673. If you’re in a mental health crisis, call the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 9-8-8.

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0:00.0	Especially when I first shook your hand and walked in here, because I thought you're going to be some creepy guy.
0:04.0	I would be looking at him.
0:06.0	Well, I'm glad you don't think I'm creepy.
0:08.0	But to look at you, see you eating pizza and smiling, do you have any idea what that's like for me to have to tell you this shit?
0:16.0	I don't want you to hear this. You shouldn't have to hear this.
0:20.0	Any of it.
0:21.5	There's also a lot of power in telling you.
0:23.3	Is there?
0:25.8	Am I, is this going to be the same thing as one here?
0:28.5	I thought I was helping them all the time I was working there.
0:30.8	All it was doing was fueling those guys to hurt them worse.
0:35.5	This is Karen Le Moyne, a former employee of the Youth Development Center,
0:41.2	the juvenile jail in New Hampshire.
0:43.9	For the last 30 years or so, she's been afraid to speak publicly about YDC.
0:49.7	But after she decided I was not some creepy guy, Karen told me her story. And it was like a damn
0:57.6	breaking loose. She had so much to say. We spoke for six hours in a studio across two days.
1:05.0	We stopped only for Karen's smoke breaks and for me to eat that pizza, she mentioned.
1:10.8	Karen is a really warm and earnest person.
1:14.2	She feels this story deeply, even all these years later.
1:19.7	Karen's story begins with her first day on the job at YDC back in 1989.
1:26.3	Just a couple years before Andy Perkins from the last episode was there.
1:30.3	There really was no training.
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