Boy Scouts sheltered child abuser, he gets 1.4 mil
Jury Awards $1.4M in Boy Scout Sex Abuse Case
Jurors on Tuesday found the Boys 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.
The jury also decided the Irving, Texas-based Scouts organization was liable for punitive damages that will be decided in a separate phase of the trial. That would be in addition to the $1.4 million.
The Scouts denied the allegations of negligence and said the files actually helped them keep child molesters out of their ranks.
Lawyers for Kerry Lewis, the victim who filed the lawsuit, argued the Boy Scouts organization was reckless for allowing former assistant Scoutmaster Timur Dykes to continue to associate with the victim’s Scout troop after Dykes admitted to a bishop for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints early in 1983 that he had molested 17 Boy Scouts. </em>
Shut ‘em down. Along with the catholic creeps…and spend time with your kids instead of handing them off to those who shelter sex offenders as a matter of policy.
