The allegations in the Luzerne County, Pa., judicial scandal are ugly enough: In exchange for kickbacks from private detention centers, former county judges Michael T. Conahan and and Mark A. Ciavarella sent hundreds of juveniles off to the centers, sometimes for rather lengthy stays. Click here, here, here, here and here for previous LB posts on the scandal.

But we recently got wind of an allegation tucked into a civil complaint concerning Ciavarella that's really not for the faint of heart.

According...