UNITED STATES
PacerMonitor.com (corporation’s blog)
March 19, 2020
By Juliette Fairley
When the Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy, the class action suit over allegations of child sex abuse was automatically stayed in favor of a plan that will create a Victims Compensation Trust.
Just how much money will be set aside is hard to tell, but if Catholic Church litigation is any indication, it could be millions of dollars.
“BSA consistently misrepresented itself as a safe, wholesome, values-based organization where scouts would be prepared for life, when BSA knew, in fact, that its programs were infested with pedophiles, its organization-wide abuse problem dated back to the 1910s, and the rampant abuse in its programs was doing serious harm to thousands of boys,” wrote plaintiffs’ attorney Carl S. Kravitz in the Jan. 6 complaint.
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