IDAHO
Deseret News
By Scott Taylor
Published: May 1, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY — Five men who claimed to have been abused as youth by Scouting leaders in two separate Idaho cities, are suing the Boys Scouts of America and the LDS Church, with the lawsuit saying both organizations deceptively presented the youth program as a safe and wholesome activity for boys.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in Boise’s U.S. District Court by attorneys from Boise and Portland, Oregon, who have represented other men bringing similar sexual-abuse lawsuits against the BSA and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The lawsuit says both organizations knew of problems with child molesters in Idaho Scout troops and intentionally concealed this problem from families, participants, volunteers and law enforcement.
Monday’s case involved two plantiffs by name and three “John Does,” citing abuse that was committed by Scouting leaders to youth participants in the 1960s and ’70s in Boise and Lewiston, the latter 266 miles to the north of Idaho’s capital city. Three former Scout leaders were specifically named in the lawsuit.
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