SOUTH CAROLINA
Carolina Live
by Tonya Brown
NewsChannel 15 has learned the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office and the State Law Enforcement Division have been asked to look into sexual abuse allegations against Jay Hodge.
We’re waiting to learn if the agencies will investigate.
Hodge is accused of molesting two brothers, ages 10 and 11, when he was a Boy Scout leader between 1975 and 1980.
The men, now 47 and 48 years old, have filed a civil lawsuit against Hodge, Boy Scouts of America, (http://www.scouting.org/) Pee Dee Area Council Boy Scouts of America, (http://www.peedeescouts.org/) First Presbyterian Church of Cheraw, and the Estate of William Hebard. They are seeking unspecified damages. …
The lawsuit says Boy Scouts of America, Pee Dee Area Council Boy Scouts of America, and First Presbyterian Church all failed to report Hebard and Hodge to law enforcement and failed to exclude them from acting as Scout leaders.
It says they continued to let Hodge and Hebard be involved in Boy Scout activities after learning of the alleged abuse.
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