Description: Tyler Kingkade is an award-winning investigative reporter for NBC News covering the abuse of young people, sexual assault cases, crime and treatment of vulnerable populations. He's was previously at BuzzFeed News and HuffPost.
A high school athletic trainer claimed his unorthodox treatments would change players’ lives. Dozens of victims say school officials, including one who’s now a state lawmaker, kept “Doc’s” secrets.
Days after we published the story, the US Attorney for Montana indicted the man at the center of the case. He later pleaded guilty.
An NBC News investigation — based on more than 10,000 pages of records from 14 states and interviews with former Sequel residents, their parents and attorneys, probation officers and watchdog groups — reveals how Sequel became one of the biggest behavioral health youth facility operators in the country, despite children being sexually and physically assaulted by staff members, and one was killed .