'I felt honestly more incensed by their concealment than my abuse when I was a child,' said one plaintiff, now in his 60s, about the BSA's alleged coverup of sex-abuse cases.
The already embattled Boy Scouts of America has been hit with a new slate of lawsuits claiming the youth organization hid or mishandled child sexual abuse claims for years.
Nine new lawsuits alleging the Boy Scouts mishandled or covered up the sexual abuse of young scouts join the hundreds filed since the revelation of an internal BSA database on thousand of alleged abusers.The cases come after a statewide measure, the Child Victims Act, took effect on August 14. Signed into law by New York Governor Cuomo in February, it temporarily lifts the statute of limitations on child sex-abuse cases, no matter how old.
At the beginning of August, the BSA was hit with a similar suit in Philadelphia, alleging the organization knew of some 350 previously unreported scoutmasters or members who molested young scouts. Filing in Philadelphia County Common Pleas Court, the group Abused in Scouting claims the BSA facilitated"a continuing and serious conspiracy to conceal and cover up" sexual assaults against children.
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