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Maclaren

[muhk-lar-uhn, muh-klar-]

noun

  1. Ian Watson, John.



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Tammy Rogers, 56, hired the Slater firm in 2022 to sue after a staff member at MacLaren Children’s Center, a county-run children’s facility now infamous for abuse, allegedly molested her when she was about 9.

At age 12, she said, she was impregnated by a staff member at MacLaren Children’s Center — an assault that has haunted her since the 1980s.

In April, Los Angeles County agreed to a $4-billion tentative settlement involving 6,800 abuse claims, some of them going back to the 1980s, involving probation camps, juvenile halls and the MacLaren Children’s Center.

Thousands came forward to describe sexual abuse at the now-closed MacLaren Children’s Center, a county-run home for foster youth now infamous for staffers who drugged and molested kids in their care.

“The system has been too lax,” said Supervisor Hilda Solis, who called MacLaren a “stain” on the county.

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