Broadstep Behavioral Health: Allegations of Rape, Suicide, Broken Bones at Excalibur Youth Services

November 26, 2025

For-profit Excalibur Youth Services 40-bed psychiatric residential treatment facility in Kingstree, South Carolina—owned and operated by Broadstep Behavioral Health—faces dozens of complaints and multiple lawsuits alleging sexual assault, physical abuse, neglect, and fatal failures in oversight.

Key data documented in state and court records include: a 13-year-old resident’s suicide inside the facility in January 2024, staff allegedly hitting, stepping on, and restraining children, allowing resident-on-resident fights, withholding medical care, leaving children in isolation due to understaffing, and incidents such as a child drinking bleach that had been poured into a juice bottle and thrown in the trash.

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