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A teen has told police he was sexually assaulted by other boys in a shower room at the Albuquerque juvenile center where another boy was allegedly raped days earlier, authorities said.

Two suspects, age 17 and 15, have been identified in the second reported assault at the state's Youth Diagnostic and Development Center, State Police spokesman Peter Olson said Sunday.

The latest incident, reported Saturday, allegedly occurred Sept. 24. Two other inmates were arrested the same day for the Sept. 21 rape of a 15-year-old. Suspects in that case, ages 15 and 14, have pleaded innocent to seven charges.

As in the Sept. 21 case, the alleged victim was a new arrival at the facility, Olson said.

Criminal sexual contact charges against the two suspects will be forwarded to the District Attorney's office for review, he said.

"It was a group shower situation," Olson said. "The 15-year-old and the 17-year-old assaulted or attacked another boy."

Olson said he didn't know the age of the victim.

Operated by the Children, Youth and Families Department, the YDDC is designed to house the state's most violent juvenile offenders. But all convicted juveniles are sent to the center for screening to determine their placement in the juvenile justice system.

Acting CYFD Secretary Dorian Dodson said showers are always monitored when in use.

Dodson wouldn't discuss specifics of either assault allegation but said the department's policies, including monitoring the shower room, had been followed.

"We have not deviated from those policies," she said. "We take the safety of our kids extremely seriously and we will continue to do so."

Dodson said CYFD policy requires guards to conduct bed checks on inmates every 10 minutes.

That policy was also followed, she said.

Dodson said the department was considering making counseling available to all inmates in light of the recent assault reports.

The 15-year-old alleged victim in the earlier case was there for screening prior to serving a one year sentence for residential burglary and violating his probation, his mother told The Tribune.

She said her son told her that his roommates raped him after telling him it was his "initiation."

Darnyle Pioche, 15, and Adam Landon, 14, face up to 82 years of adult prison time on charges including kidnapping and criminal sexual penetration in connection with that assault.

Both pleaded innocent in Children's Court last week and are being held at the Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center.