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Friday, August 9, 2019

NEARLY 800 ACCUSE BOY SCOUTS OF FAILING TO PROTECT THEM FROM SEX ABUSE AS NEW LAWSUIT IS FILED

NEARLY 800 ACCUSE BOY SCOUTS 
OF FAILING TO PROTECT THEM 
FROM SEX ABUSE 
AS NEW LAWSUIT IS FILED 
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PHILADELPHIA (USA Today)  A lawsuit filed on Monday against the Boy Scouts of America says hundreds of former Scouts have come forward in recent months with accounts of sexual abuse, allegations from across eight decades that reach nearly every state.
Lawyers began collecting the accounts this spring as they prepared a suit, which they filed on behalf of a client who alleges his former scoutmaster plied him with drugs and alcohol before repeatedly sexually abusing him.
At a news conference Tuesday morning, the lawyers said they have nearly 800 other clients who were abused while Scouts. The suit says at least 350 abusers do not appear in the Boy Scouts’ disciplinary files, citing that as evidence that the organization has not adequately vetted its volunteers and hidden the extent of the sexual abuse scandal.
“It is apparent that the Boy Scout Defendants continue to hide the true nature of their cover-up and the extent of the pedophilia epidemic within their organizations because the vast majority of new victims coming forward involve claims of abuse at the hands of pedophiles who are not yet identified by the Boy Scouts of America,” the complaint reads.
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