Maya Hayes allegedly regularly fondled the teens in her care and forced them to squeeze her breasts or grope her, four ...

Hayes, a former psychologist at the Brookwood Secure Center for Youth in Claverack, faces startling new allegations in a ...

The complaint further alleges that staff members were aware — and made jokes about the alleged abuse. According to the ...

A former staff psychologist at a Columbia County youth detention center now faces two separate federal lawsuits for allegedly ...

According to the lawsuit, she had a “scheme to sexually abuse and exploit as many children as possible under the guise of ...

Maya Hayes told the teen she dreamed about him and that she "had a previous guy inside Brookwood" who "broke her heart," whom ...

The accused psychologist, Maya Hayes, also faces 65 criminal sex abuse charges Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at PEOPLE covering crime. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has ...

Maya Hayes allegedly plied the teens in her care at the Brookwood Youth Facility near Albany with phone privileges, hair products and food, while regularly fondling them and forcing them to ...

Maya Hayes began sexually abusing him about three months after he was detained at age 17 at the Brookwood Secure Center for Youth, a facility for male and female juvenile offenders in Columbia ...

A former employee at a juvenile detention center, who is already facing dozens of sex abuse charges, is now accused of raping ...