At least 82,000 have filed sex abuse claims against the Boy Scouts, legal team says

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The Boy Scouts of America will be facing at least 82,000 claims of abuse as former scouts submit filings against the bankruptcy-bound organization, said a spokeswoman for the legal team representing the alleged survivors. The estimate came Sunday. The deadline for submitting claims in the proceedings is 5 p.m. ET Monday.

"We are devastated by the number of lives impacted by past abuse in scouting and moved by the bravery of those who have come forward," a BSA statement said. "We are heartbroken that we cannot undo their pain."

Sex abuse in the BSA was an "unspoken norm," according to Andrew Van Arsdale, one of the lead attorneys, who says he has communicated with thousands of alleged survivors over the past 19 months.

"Based on what we are hearing from survivors, sexual abuse was a rite of passage in troops across the country, similar to other tasks where children had to ... perform certain duties to earn their coveted merit badges," he said in a statement.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/16/us/boy-scouts-sex-abuse-deadline-bankruptcy/index.html

[FakeNoose]

1. Shocking and horrifying

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3. So imagine what happened when the Scout Master

was a Catholic priest?

[BluesRunTheGame]

4. When I was a Scout one of my Scoutmasters went on to become a Priest.

As far as I know no one in the troop was abused but once he became a Priest he had 19 victims before they shut him down.

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5. My brother was a boy scout

He told us about boys one priest abused. They chose their victims carefully.

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2. And it is likely the actual number is way higher than 82K