Latifa was only 15 when she was compelled into marriage with a man more than twice her age. After enduring months of abuse and a forced pregnancy, she found the courage to escape and expose what had happened to her.

A former Youth Development Center employee emphatically rejected claims that he aided others in the abuse of a teenage boy decades ago. Accused of helping to beat and rape a resident in the 1990s, he took the stand on Thursday to defend himself and declare that the allegations are false.