NEW JERSEY
Bridgewater Courier News
December 3, 2019
By Mike Deak
While the Catholic Church has been the focus of sexual abuse lawsuits filed with extended time limits, the Boy Scouts of America is named as a defendant in more than a dozen of them.
Though the suits were filed in Superior Court in Middlesex County because the organization’s national headquarters was once located on Route 1 in North Brunswick, the accusers are from across the state, from Camden to Bergen counties.
The allegations of Douglas Parker, who grew up in Middlesex County, are representative of the lawsuits filed by the firm of Rebenack Aronow & Mascolo with offices in New Brunswick and Somerville.
Parker alleges he was sexually abused from 1961 through 1964 by an assistant scoutmaster.
The sexual abuse occurred during activities sponsored by the Boy Scouts of America, including camping trips to Camp Watchung which, at that time, was in Lebanon Township near Glen Gardner, the lawsuit alleges.
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