The future of the Boy Scouts of America could be in doubt.
The News JournalWILMINGTON, Del. — A day after the Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy, an attorney for the century-old organization told a federal judge Wednesday about Norman Rockwell paintings.
Boelter's arguments kicked off the first day of hearings for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case filed early Tuesday. While the Boy Scouts has maintained relatively strong finances, it potentially faces hundreds of millions of dollars in sex abuse claims. The Boy Scouts organization faces 275 abuse lawsuits in various states. Potentially, there are an additional 1,400 cases to come. Current cases are expected to be put on hold as the group works to contain its financial damage by consolidating the claims into a single case in Delaware's federal bankruptcy court.
“A prolonged bankruptcy proceeding has the acute risk of eroding the trust and confidence that our parents have,” she said. Victims attorney Paul Mones believes there could be tens of thousands of victims going back decades. He called the 80-day limit an "insufficient" amount of time to find them. Chief among them for many victims attorneys is the Boy Scouts decades-old list of potential abusers, referred to by the Boy Scouts as “ineligible volunteers” and by others as the"perversion files."
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