Boy Scouts Compensation Claim

Like many other youth-serving organizations, The Boy Scouts of America a problem with sexual deviants including those with an interest in children, infiltrating the ranks of adult volunteers and scout leaders. For decades, the Boy Scouts compounded this problem by maintaining secret files documenting the sexual misconduct of scout leaders. As a result, many abuse complaints were addressed internally and were not disclosed to law enforcement officials. Similar to the relations...hip between a child and religious leaders, a Boy Scout is taught to obey, respect and admire his scoutmaster. From the overnight hikes to the weeklong summer camp trips, boys grow to place immense trust in their scout leaders. Eventually, it is this trust that is exploited by those who sexually abuse the boy scouts. If you or someone you love was sexually abused by a Scout leader or someone associated with the Scouts please contact us to learn your options and to ensure your rights are protected. Our experience in this cases has shown how difficult it is for scouts to come forward with abuse allegations against scout leaders. Scouts fear retaliation, not being believed, or being ostracized from their troop. Our team of lawyers have confronted this issue in numerous cases in which Scouts were alleged to have been sexually abused by scoutmasters and other scouts leaders. Abuse can occur on overnight trips, camp outings, sleepovers, merit badge events, or even during training. If you or someone you know were abused during their participation with the scouts, you have rights, and we protect those rights and fight to ensure you get the justice and compensation you deserve.

The Boy Scouts of America urged victims to come forward Tuesday as the historic, 110-year-old organization filed for bankruptcy protection in the first step toward creating a huge compensation fund for potentially thousands of men who were molested as youngsters decades ago by scoutmasters or other leaders. The Scouts resorted to Chapter 11 in hopes of surviving a barrage of lawsuits, many of them made possible by recent changes in state laws to allow people to sue over long-ago sexual abuse.