US sexual abuse cases lodged against Charlotte-area Boy Scouts in new trials
More than two dozen victims have sued members of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) for decades of sexual abuse.
North Carolina victims took their BSA sex attackers to court under the state’s novel SAFE Child Act, US media reported on Saturday.
In one of the lawsuits, 29 former Boy Scouts sued the Mecklenburg Council of the Boy Scouts of America over sex assault allegations dating back as far as 1950 and as recent as 2007.
In a second lawsuit, a New York City man claimed that as a 13- and 14-year-old teenager, he was abused by his Scoutmaster in Charlotte for more than a year in the early 1980s.
He claims the trauma he suffered from the repeated sexual assaults caused him severe physical and emotional problems that lasted throughout his life.
He, too, called on the courts to hold the Mecklenburg Council of the Boy Scouts of America responsible for the alleged sexual abuses.
According to the New York man's complaint, the Boy Scouts of America organization should have been aware of the damage inflicted on him and made efforts to stop its repetition.
In the third lawsuit, the plaintiff alleged that in 1992 he was sexually abused by two members.
All plaintiffs in all three lawsuits were minors at the time of the alleged abuses.
BSA, with more than 2.2 million youth members and hundreds of thousands of adults, is one of the largest youth organizations in the United States.
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