Two former Summit Academy clients have filed negligence suits claiming they were sexually abused years ago as teenagers during their court-ordered detentions at the facility in Herman.

The men claimed in separate suits filed in January in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court that they were sexually abused by academy staff members.

According to one complaint, the plaintiff was sent to the academy by an order from an Allegheny County court from 2017 to 2019 when he was 15 or 16 years old.

A staff member, teacher, counselor or other employee identified only as Mark forced the plaintiff to engage in oral sex on multiple occasions, but the exact dates are not known, according to the suit.

The suit alleges Mark also fondled the plaintiff’s genitals under his clothing on multiple occasions.

Mark, who was a mandatory child abuse reporter, gave the plaintiff special privileges and bribes to stop him from disclosing the abuse, according to the suit.

The second plaintiff said he was sent to the academy through an Allegheny County Court order in 2006 and 2007 when he was 16 years old.

Three staff members, teachers, counselors or other employees, including one identified only as Brian, sexually abused the second plaintiff, who doesn’t recall the exact dates of the abuse, according to the suit.

He said staff members worked together to restrain and digitally penetrated him, causing extreme pain and his anus to bleed, according to the suit.

The staff members threatened him with physical harm and retaliation if he disclosed the abuse, according to the suit.

Both suits seek to hold the academy accountable for the alleged actions of its staff, include four counts of negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and deprivation of educational opportunities, and seek unspecified damages. The suits were filed by attorneys D. Wesley Cornish and Michael T. van der Veen of Philadelphia.

The academy could not be reached for comment Monday.