More than a billion dollars in settlements have been reached as the Boy Scouts of America begin payouts begin to tens of thousands of men alleged to have been sexually assaulted and molested as children by their scoutmasters and others in the organization.
Two settlements have been reached thus far and while the final tally will soar into ten figures, advocates and lawyers for the victims ...
continue reading...As the Boy Scouts of America work to settle nearly 100,000 claims of sexual abuse of the children under their care, the organization says that they need to settle the claims by this coming summer or they may not be around for the fall.
The number of settlements was finalized last month as a deadline elapsed for those wishing to come forward ...
continue reading...Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy earlier this year in a move that says more about the organization’s commitment to staying open than its commitment to righting the wrongs perpetrated on so many boys and young men by its leaders. As a result of BSA’s Chapter 11 filing, victims and survivors of abuse at the hands of thousands of scout leaders ...
In early 2000, an episode of The West Wing aired in which a lawyer – in an effort to influence the White House to commute his client’s death sentence – convinces a rabbi to deliver a sermon on capital punishment during that week’s services as a senior aid to the President is known to sit among the attendees. The President, a devout Catholic, would himself ...
