"Just get the lawyers in there.
That's up to the lawyers to handle.
Just ask the lawyers."
Posted on 10/10/2007 5:53:29 AM PDT by NYer
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A lawsuit filed against the Mormon Church and the Boy Scouts of America expanded on Wednesday to include four more men charging the organizations with ignoring sex abuses committed decades ago by a man who served as a church teacher and a scout leader.
The six men, who filed a new lawsuit in Oregon state Circuit Court in Multnomah County, allege that Timur Dykes, a former spiritual leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and former scout leader, repeatedly abused them when they were boys.
Dykes, a convicted sex offender, is listed on Multnomah County's registered sex offender Web page. He is not named as a defendant in this suit.
"Both the Mormon Church and Boy Scouts were well aware by at least the 1960s that they had a serious, institution-wide infestation of child abuse, stretching across the country," said the plaintiffs' attorney Kelly Clark. "They did not clear it up."
The original two plaintiffs, two brothers in their early 30s, dropped the original lawsuit and refiled the case to add four more plaintiffs. The men filed the lawsuit under the names "Jack Doe."
The lawsuit asks for $25 million in damages.
Dykes was allowed to continue in positions of trust and continue to abuse boys for four or five years after he was first arrested or investigated as early as 1981, said Clark.
"We work very, very hard to protect children in the Boy Scouts," said Gregg Shields, national spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America, who declined to comment on the suit.
Portland attorney Stephen English, representing the Mormon Church, said the church is thoroughly investigating what happened. He also said Dykes was never a member of the Mormon clergy and has been excommunicated.
No Homosexual Scoutmasters — ever.
It’s a shame the Boy Scouts are getting hit with this when they “cowboyed up” and fought all the way to the Supreme Court to be able to bar homosexual scoutmasters.
Watch out for the Avenging Angels. These people are toast.
Just great. Hit the Mormons and the Boy Scouts in one swell foop.
It mentions the Boy Scouts. It mentions the Church the guy was associated with.
But it never says “homosexual”.
Keywords: “decades ago.”
The BSA went has done everything possible to purge child molesters. At this point in time, I personally assume that anyone bringing up these old cases is actually in favor of homosexuals’ free access to boys.
Timur Van Dykes
Convictions: Sodomy II, Sodomy III, Sex Abuse I
Sentence Expiration: August 01, 2013
His sentence should have expired yesterday on the gallows. It’s a measure of our insanity as a culture that we let these cretins live.
You can't possibly be that naive. You believe it just because the church makes that public claim.?
I hate to be the one to spring the bad news but ...
Mormon Church sued again regarding child sexual abuse
Mormon / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints / LDS
FWIW, this problem is most prevalent in the public schools which are protected by the Federal Gov't.
It is also widespread in the protestant churches.
Report: Protestant Church Insurers Handle 260 Sex Abuse Cases A Year
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