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Suit against Boy Scouts says new abuse claims uncovered (BSA considering bankruptcy)
SenturyLink ^ | August 6, 2019 | AssociatedPress

Posted on 08/06/2019 8:00:30 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o

Lawyers bringing a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America said Tuesday they believe they've turned up allegations of sexual abuse against more than 350 people not previously identified in files released by the organization.

Attorneys with the Abused in Scouting group filed a lawsuit Monday in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, alleging a one-time scout leader sexually abused a minor identified only by initials.

The suit alleges that the abuse of the then-12- or 13-year-old victim by an assistant scout leader started around 1974 or 1975 and continued until about 1980.

It also says that the lawyers received allegations of abuse from their clients against more than 350 people involved with the scouts who had not previously been named.

The Irving, Texas-based scouts compiled so-called ineligible volunteer files for years on people considered to pose a risk of abuse, and about 5,000 of these files have been made public as a result of court action.

Monday's suit is claiming that the lawyers now have hundreds of names that were not in those public files. It does not list the names.

"It is apparent that the Boy Scouts Defendants continue to hide the true nature of their cover-up and the extent of the pedophilia epidemic within their organizations," the lawsuit alleged.

An email message seeking comment was sent to the Boy Scouts.

The lawsuit comes as states have begun changing their statutes of limitations to make it easier for long-ago victims of sexual assault can seek damages in court.

The Boy Scouts have said previously that when any volunteer is added to the database for suspected abuse, "they are reported to law enforcement, removed entirely from any Scouting and prohibited from re-joining anywhere."

The sexual abuse settlements have begun to strain the Boy Scouts' finances to the point where the organization has said it's exploring "all available options," including Chapter 11 bankruptcy.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abuse; clowardpiven; gramsci; grooming; homosexuals; pedophile; recruiting; scouting; sodomites
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To: LouAvul
Sadly, the odds are high that when a man seeks the company of children his intentions are degenerate. Suspicion is appropriate, IMO, be the organization Laic or Christian.

Too bad for the good men among us.

21 posted on 08/06/2019 8:31:17 PM PDT by coaster123 (Destroy those who socialize with leftists.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

What’s crazy is the bsa kept these records so they could keep these pedos from moving to another scout group and doing it again.


22 posted on 08/06/2019 8:32:16 PM PDT by statered ("And you know what I mean.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Sooner or later, the pedophiles are going to start suing the boys for resisting their advances.


23 posted on 08/06/2019 8:39:20 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Just mythoughts
Confirmation takes place at 9th grade or earlier. So you believe the report states homosexual acts between priests and 15 year-old boys are justified as "consensual".

Post that portion of the report or take your anti-Catholic bullshit elsewhere.

24 posted on 08/06/2019 8:43:20 PM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I still have a problem believing it was as widespread as claimed...not that there weren’t abuses, but it does seem to me that it would have been difficult for the Boy Scouts to cover it up, at least relative to the Catholic Church, for example - where you’d be going against an institution that’s nearly 2000 years old.

To put it another way, there were a LOT of police departments and prosecutors who were not necessarily into the ‘male-bonding’ that is claimed to have taken place and they would not have hesitated to toss the a-holes into jail...yet nothing but silence then, at least as far as I can remember.

Now today, TOTALLY DIFFERENT - people are scared to death to go after this crap...I would believe anything, given the pro-pedophile bunch we’re now up against.


25 posted on 08/06/2019 8:46:02 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Remember...they don’t recruit. Except when they’re recruiting.


26 posted on 08/06/2019 8:46:21 PM PDT by relictele
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To: Texas Eagle

Judging from the drag queen events around the country, a lot of the parents probably approve of the molestations these days.


27 posted on 08/06/2019 8:46:32 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Gene Eric

If that remains the outlook, expect mass shootings to continue their upward trend in the US. When a young man feels powerless and without value they may retreat into a safe routine, or they may strike out with a generalized anger and disappointment at the society that ‘failed’ them. These are not rational thoughts, but emotional ones, borne of unchecked futility and frustration over a long period of time. A slow, unstopped erosion of the
spirit.


28 posted on 08/06/2019 8:55:48 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: GOP_Party_Animal
Confirmation takes place at 9th grade or earlier. So you believe the report states homosexual acts between priests and 15 year-old boys are justified as "consensual". Post that portion of the report or take your anti-Catholic bullshit elsewhere.

http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/child-and-youth-protection/upload/The-Nature-and-Scope-of-Sexual-Abuse-of-Minors-by-Catholic-Priests-and-Deacons-in-the-United-States-1950-2002.pdf

Why would those that claim to be the one and only 'bride of Christ', need to commission a 'report' about their 'holy fathers' abusing its own members... prepubescent children have NO voice... and the 'holy' people sure took great measures to make sure they were not heard. Remember ... it makes absolutely no difference what 'my' opinion is, but our Heavenly Father keeps the perfect record... HE knows who messed with his children!!!!!!!! There is nothing 'anti-Catholic' in exposing the FACTS... Take that ...

29 posted on 08/06/2019 9:03:39 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“destroy traditional institutions”

That’s what it is really about. Just one more part of their revolution.


30 posted on 08/06/2019 9:06:40 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: lee martell

And that’s what we’ve been witnessing unfortunately.


31 posted on 08/06/2019 9:11:08 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

The BSA has been a “dead man walking” since the SCOTUS ruling.

This is going to sound extreme, but I believe the organization should have closed itself down at that point.

Instead we get to witness this ignoble end. As well as wonder how many molestations would have been prevented once homosexuals were allowed lead troops.


32 posted on 08/06/2019 9:15:10 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Thank homosexuals. Never should have let them near kids. Everyone needs to learn the lesson from this, else it will be repeated, and likely is whereever there are homosexuals around kids.


33 posted on 08/06/2019 9:22:16 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Homosexual Scoutmasters and participants.

What could possibly go wrong???


34 posted on 08/06/2019 9:22:23 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: Gene Eric

Stick a fork in the BSA (no pun). It’s just like the GSA which I pulled my daughter out of indoctrinating sex,abortion and social BS while pushing stupid cookies. Bottom line is that the left destroys EVERYTHING it touches and is rolling on even more so in the Trump era which is just shocking but not surprising.


35 posted on 08/06/2019 9:51:26 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I won’t be happy until they go for a BK Chapter 7 and close it down.

Once they went down the path of basically supporting Homosexuality, they destroyed their reputation forever.


36 posted on 08/06/2019 10:32:26 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I have no doubt that people are out for money, not justice....just money....

a man can make up a story just like that because it was decades ago and a lot of the abusers, or so called are dead or senile.....there is no defense to muster because people have their minds made up.....

37 posted on 08/06/2019 10:43:33 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Mrs. Don-o

There are times when the civilized world faces a truly demonic enemy who is the personification of evil.

This is one of those times.

There is no pillar of American society that liberals do not seek to sully and destroy.


38 posted on 08/06/2019 11:24:50 PM PDT by democratsaremyenemy (Streepisacreep)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Letting gays into the BSA as scout masters was the Trojan Horse to destroy it.


39 posted on 08/06/2019 11:29:40 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

A great organization that has done a lot of good over the years destroyed in the name of perversion.


40 posted on 08/06/2019 11:48:42 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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