"Jury finds Boy Scouts negligent in abuse case" by Associated Press | April 14, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. — Jurors yesterday found the Boy Scouts of America negligent and awarded $1.4 million to a former Portland man who was abused by an assistant scoutmaster in the early 1980s, following a three-week trial in which secret Scout “perversion files’’ were used as evidence.
I never liked the junior military in training.
The jury also decided the Scouts organization, based in Irving, Texas, was liable for punitive damages that will be decided in a separate phase of the trial, in addition to the $1.4 million.
The Scouts denied allegations of negligence and said the files actually helped them keep child molesters out of their ranks....
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No, I don't want to go camping this weekend.
"Scouts hit with $18m damages for abuse" by Associated Press | April 24, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. — A jury ordered the Boy Scouts of America yesterday to pay $18.5 million to an Oregon man sexually abused by a former assistant Scoutmaster in the early 1980s.
Lawyers for Kerry Lewis had asked the jury to award at least $25 million to punish the Boy Scouts for what the jury had already agreed in the first phase of the trial was reckless and outrageous conduct.
The jury decided on April 13 that the Boy Scouts were negligent for allowing former assistant Scoutmaster Timur Dykes to associate with Scouts, including Lewis, after Dykes admitted to a Scouts official in 1983 that he had molested 17 boys....
Off with his (little) head!
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