Lawyer claims the Boy Scouts of America have secret files with the names of 7,819 Scout leaders who allegedly preyed on boys, and the names of 12,254 victims.
Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / AFP - Getty ImagesGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.The Boy Scouts of America has locked away in its"perversion files" the names of 7,819 scout leaders who allegedly preyed on boys, a lawyer who is representing the sexual abuse victims claimed Tuesday.
Anderson said the figures came from Dr. Janet Warren, a professor at the University of Virginia's medical school, who for five years had worked on a contract basis with the Scouts to evaluate how they handled sexual abuse within the organization from 1944 to 2016. She had access to review the files as part of her work. Warren revealed the figures in January while testifying in an unrelated child sex abuse case that took place at a Minnesota children's theater company, he said.
"At no time have we ever knowingly allowed a sexual predator to work with youth, and we mandate that all leaders, volunteers and staff members nationwide immediately report any abuse allegations to law enforcement," the statement said. Slammed by numerous lawsuits and facing mounting legal costs, the venerable nonprofit organization, which has been around for over a century, warned in December that it was considering filing for“We have a social and moral responsibility to fairly compensate victims who suffered abuse during their time in Scouting, and we also have an obligation to carry out our mission to serve youth, families and local communities through our programs,” the chief scout executive, Michael Surbaugh, said in the...
Anderson said he was convinced that there even more cases are in the files"that are being held and hoarded at the Boy Scouts of America headquarters." He said he intended to sue the Scouts on behalf of the victims to open up those files.
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