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Video: ‘I Know That I’m Not the Only One,’ Says Woman Who Has Sued Boys Town, Alleging Sex Assault

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Boys Town residents watch the opening of a new school
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Since an Oscar-winning movie in 1954 made Omaha’s Boys Town famous, Father Edward J. Flanagan’s...

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Video courtesy of the Des Moines Register.

'I want this to stop happening to other people," says Shaelyn Nielsen, who says she was sexually abused while she was a resident at Boys Town.


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