Stories Related to Scouts’ Sex Abuse On File Since 1920s, Lawyer Says

GILLIAN FLACCUS - The Associated Press, Portland Press Herald
Tue, 01/27/2015 - 2:00am

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The sexual abuse of a 13-year-old scout by an adult volunteer was part of a “sordid history of child sexual abuse” within the Boy Scouts that has been documented internally by the organization for nearly a century, the victim’s attorney said Monday in his opening statement at a civil trial in California. The scout, now 20, has sued the Boy Scouts of America and a local scouting council for punitive damages after being molested by a volunteer leader in 2007.

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