Source: Niamh Harris
The number of Boy Scouts who say pedophile leaders raped them has risen to a staggering 90,000 after the Monday deadline for filing a claim against the Boy Scouts of America passed.
The claims are part of the organization’s bankruptcy proceedings.
“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,” the Boy Scouts admitted in a statement. “We are heartbroken that we cannot undo their pain.”
“The response we have seen from survivors has been gut-wrenching,” the statement continued.
“We are deeply sorry.”
Breitbart.com reports: According to the Associated Press (AP), the organization “intentionally developed an open, accessible process to reach survivors and help them take an essential step toward receiving compensation.”
“They spent millions trying to encourage people to come forward,” Andrew Van Arsdale, a lawyer with a network called Abused in Scouting, said in the AP report. “Now, the question is whether they can make good on their commitment.”
AP reported on the latest developments:
The potential size of the fund is not yet known and will be the subject of complex negotiations. The national organization is expected to contribute a substantial portion of its assets, which include financial investments and real estate. The Boy Scouts’ insurers also will be contributing, as will the Boy Scouts’ roughly 260 local councils and companies that insured them in the past.
The bankruptcy has been painful for the 110-year-old Boy Scouts, which has been a pillar of American civic life for generations. Its finances were already strained by sex abuse settlements and declining membership — now below 2 million from a peak of over 4 million in the 1970s.
Most of the pending sex abuse claims date to the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, before the Boy Scouts adopted criminal background checks, abuse prevention training for all staff and volunteers, and a rule that two or more adult leaders must be present during activities.
Although Monday was the deadline for claims against the national organization, AP reported that one attorney involved in the case said new claims could still be filed against local councils depending on state limitations laws.
“More sexual abuse claims will be filed in the Boy Scouts bankruptcy than all claims filed against the Catholic Church throughout the nation,” the Torts Claimants Committee said.
“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,” the Boy Scouts admitted.
You’re a liar! What did you think was going to happen? You should be in prison for the rest of your useless life! Be glad it wasn’t my child, or you’d be dead and I’d be the one in prison.
Dan, how could it possibly be true? When the BSA was being sued and attacked by the democrats for excluding homosexuals and pedophiles the dems pointed out that sexual abuse would NEVER happen.
I believe everyone of these people. I remember a backpacking event for the troop I was associated with. The one time I did not go. Had a new ASM and for some reason we did not practice “2 deep leadership”.
This man did not have any boys in the unit. For that matter his children were under the age of 3 years.
I usually went on all the Backpacking trips, but for some reason, I didn’t this time.
On the way home from picking up the boys after they returned, I GOT an ear full from the 4 in my car.
It was reported and I don’t think anything was done other than just dismissing this person.
To this day,I still remember those 4 boys telling me about the ‘New’ ASM!
After that event my oldest son left scouting!
I was also an ASM, wood badge trained at the time…..
haha dam straight!! frikkin filthy pedos wtf smh
The scale is so over the top I imagine many of these are false because people are just trying to grab whatever cash they can out of the claim.
I agree 100%.
You have to remember the class action lawsuit actually provides for ANY sexual abuse–whether from a leader or fellow Scout. So if these numbers are legitimate complaints, it could also be similar to experiences at all-boys boarding schools, where boys are abusing each other (whether maliciously or not). I was fondled by an older boy on a couple campouts, but our leaders were always pretty decent guys trying to help a bunch of unruly disrespectful kids. I have nothing but good things to say about the Scouting program of the 70’s and 80’s anyway.
That said, there here are many proven cases of sexual abuse between adult Scout leaders and kids over the years. There is no excuse for that. And I feel bad that there will be lying, carpet baggers that will dilute the lawsuit funds and deprive true victims of some kind of compensation or justice.
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks”
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
yea, what the hell does that mean?
This is so crazy – I quit Cub Scouts after a few weeks when I was 9 because the Scout Leader gave me the creeps – years later, you guessed it – they busted the pedo.
I don’t know how I knew so young that Priests and Scout Leaders and Guidance Counselors were all pedophiles. I had a little gang when I was 5 in an Ottawa slum in the 70s – I was the keeper of the smokes, cuz if I got caught sneaking them in and hiding them in my room, I wouldn’t get beaten with a belt or punched out too bad. It got me a lot of street cred in 1970.
So we avoided them like the plague, but I always felt crazy about it. I mean, either I am a paranoid conspiracy theorist, or we live in a nightmare open air pedophile cult. Neither scenario is very appealing.
Now it’s all out in the open – in fact, every crazy whacked out psycho thing I ever imagined was happening is all true and already yesterday’s news !!
GOD BLESS AMERICA !!!!
GOD WINS !!!!
“…Priests and Scout Leaders and Guidance Counselors were all pedophiles…”
Settle down, tiger. No, they “all” weren’t/ aren’t.
You mandated that homosexuals teach kids morality.
How did you think it was going to end?
It was the acceptance of homosexuality in the ranks of scoutmasters.
The stripping away of the very morals the Boy Scouts once promoted.
To Uppity White Man, you’re ignorant of the facts. Homosexuality was not accepted in Scout leadership until long after these incidents being reported as claims. By the time homosexuality was accepted new behavior policies were in place, such as no leader can ever be alone with a boy.
Trans reading hour for the toddlers. Boys dancing in gay strip clubs. Turn the society into a sh!t hole vote democrat.
don’t forget transvestite clubs in college’s…..
I never made it to the Boy Scouts because there was an interim organization between Cub and Boy Scouts called Weblos or something close to that. The leader in this group was a pedo, I saw it coming and I left for good.
There was something called Webolos, which was a step right before joining the Boy Scouts. I saw the leader as very weird and dropped out. Glad I did to spare me from all this crap that followed.
90,000, sorry I’m not buying it. I was a Boy Scout and we never heard of such a thing. Yeah there are some peds out there, but come on, 90,000 boys supposedly having been molested? If they are going back 50 years then maybe, but if a fifty year old man wants to join that suit, then he is part of the problem of trying to extract vengeance just because some lawyer promises them substantial windfall if they join. I could go on but needless to say this GD hysteria must stop. Our world is about to explode into anarchy and they’re worried about Pedophilia. They should start worrying about how many are going to die at the hands of the Anarchist !
You morons will not stop pedophilia because it has been with humanity ever since we became Homo Sapien, Sapiens. Fathers and Mothers need to explain to their children just what pedophilia is and how to understand the nuances a Ped uses to gain trust, and then instruct them on how to handle an adult trying to gain that trust.
IE: Parents need to instruct their children on what is referred to as “Streets Smarts” !!!
Being a 50 year old man and a victim i joined the lawsuit…this shit does happen unfortunately all too often
Being a 50 year old man and a victim i joined the lawsuit…this shit does happen unfortunately all too often
” Fathers and Mothers need to explain to their children just what pedophilia is and how to understand the nuances a Ped uses to gain trust, and then instruct them on how to handle an adult trying to gain that trust.”
to an 6 or 8 yr old boy that your also teaching “respect your elders” to? Really? And they are going to UNDERSTAND what inappropriate touching is and HOW to defend themselves? Really? How about the parents keeping their children safe and at their side…taking the time to watch them closely……look how many “go missing” and are never found! what do you think happens to THEM ! I say LAWS that incarcerate pedophile’s be made much stricter like 20 yr minimum or better yet CHEMICAL CASTRATE them as the punishment that fits the crime……this is SO OUT OF HAND….its sickening…our poor children…what society is offering them….
Boy….Am I glad I flunked Knot tying and dropped out of scouts !!!!
I have noticed almost nonstop ads from ambulance chasing attorneys soliciting alleged victims going back to the founding of the BSA. Bet you a tuna samich those ads have resulted in a b’zillion phony claims from opportunists who were not even members of the Boy Scouts.
I was in the BSA in the 1950s and all of the adult leadership were fathers of my peers. My dad died when I was five years old and my mom never remarried, so I felt fortunate that the BSA was available to provide outdoor skills and recreational opportunities that a dad would ordinarily teach his son.
Later on in my high school years they started vocational explorer programs that fostered my interest in law enforcement that turned into a lifetime career in police work and later teaching others in that subject matter.
I don’t think the BSA had any problems with victimized kids until much later when Liberals filed lawsuits to force BSA to accept gays into the ranks and leadership.
That really sucked and I think that was the beginning of the pedo problems.
What is really more sad is that there exists a greater problem that will probably remain hidden. I live in a small town where life is fairly uncomplicated and I know of someone who was a choir director for the young adults, and many of the young men were active in the boy scouts, several were leaders in the eagle ranks. One sunday the choir director was approached by a young man who wanted to speak to her about a young girl who had a crush on him and he was asking for help. When asked why do you need help, his reply, because I am gay. There were many emotions and all thought it was taken care of. How confident we were that it was all addressed and there was no more problems. later in the next 10 yrs, a hint related to the old problem kept resurfacing. The young man died within the next year, and the young people scattered and all was forgotten. But at the ten year mark when everyone wanted to renew of friends it was discovered that almost all of the scouting group for this area had died, my friend who was the choir director wanted more information and found it very difficult because families didn’t want to talk about it. What we have learned is that almost 29 young men all is the same scouting group within the 10 yr period died with AIDS. And if you ask more it goes away. In the church no one admits knowledge of this terrible loss or ask who was responsible and some blame the scoutmasters, when there are some who do speak out, but the reality is that a young man decided that he was gay, and aggressively pursued the idea, and he was the top eagle scout and slowly his friends disappeared oven 10 yrs. and those of us who were familiar with the problems know that this insidious killer made it way killing our young men and us churchgoers remained ignorant of the cause for 10 yrs, and as each family had a loss they moved on to a different church because they couldn’t understand how that could happen to them, HOW WAS IT POSSIBLE THEIR CHILD WAS FORCED INTO SUCH ACTION. And the reality is this is more incidious in our lives today because being gay was different but there were no celebrations for a different way of life, and children are the explorers a nd something different was offered and that is the end of the story. Let’s stop attacking all the boy scout leaders, perhaps there are the boys who in many cases will remain unknown who contributed to many more of these abuses and many children at first didn’t consider it abuse, it was being part of the group.
The NAMBLA activists forced the BSA to open its two-man pup tents to homosexual predators.
Then, everyone is shocked… SHOCKED that homosexual predation occurred?
I spent 10 years in the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, up to Assistant Scout Master and NEVER saw or heard ANY speech or action about sexual predation by gays.
ONLY AFTER NAMBLA used ACLU and the courts to force the Boy Scouts of America to bend over and kiss their feet, did anyone hear about any abuse.
This is a HOMOSEXUAL abuse scandal. And yet NO ONE calls it out.
Let’s be clear. It WASN’T WOMEN who were abusing these boys.
If 100,000 Boy Scouts were molested since 1970, that would be about 1 out of every 250 Boy Scouts — 100,000 is a shocking number and seems hard for some to believe. But 1 out of 250 is not too hard to believe, and also shows how so many could be abused while the vast majority of Boy Scouts knew nothing about predators or abuse. Would it be reasonable to ask that, in order to qualify for compensation, each of the 90,000 making a claim of abuse submit an account of the abuse they experienced and name the perpetrator?
One would think that should be a requirement for a claim.
The parents , judges, and LGBT organizations that promoted this fiasco should be arrested, tried, and convicted for their participation. Schools and colleges teach these innocent young people all the wrong lessons and prepare them to believe that LGBT organizations are OK and alternative lifestyles are the wave of the Socialist world they will be living in. Global Warming–climate change is just one more hoax as is the invented,
preplanned Covid that was patented in the US by a federal agency many years before it was introduced earlier this year. The MSM and the other MSM one medical and one news are two of the main culprits and should all be in prison.
Anyone who still watches television is subject to fall into the above traps. When the truth becomes a lie and a lie becomes the truth a country is on a fast track to total destruction. That is where we are and the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts were targeted and compromised by the evil forces like Soros and his minions and all the Deep State parasitic scum that are at the heads of most USA agencies.