A scathing new lawsuit accuses Cook County and Illinois state employees of sexually abusing children held in detention facilities. The complaints are 410 pages long altogether—and the details of what 272 men and women say happened to them in juvenile custody are unsettling.

Survivors of child sex abuse at juvenile detention facilities in Illinois are hoping for justice. Hundreds of people have alleged they were abused as children while incarcerated at detention facilities across the state.

Since May, 667 people have joined lawsuits alleging sexual abuse in juvenile detention centers across the state, according to attorneys.

At a news conference Tuesday, lawyers said the men and women were sexually abused as children in youth facilities run by the State of Illinois and Cook County. Shardaa Gray reports.

Law firm addresses the more than 200 men and women were allegedly sexually abused as children while in custody at juvenile detention centers in Illinois.

More than 200 men and women were sexually abused as children while in custody at juvenile detention centers in Illinois, according to lawsuits filed Monday, the latest in a string of complaints alleging decades of systemic child sex abuse.

Over two hundred people who passed through the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center as adolescents say the facility's guards, teachers and other staff members took sexual advantage of them.