Boy Scouts files for bankruptcy in the face of thousands of child abuse allegations
Boy Scouts of America filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early Tuesday amid declining members and a drumbeat of child sexual abuse allegations that have illuminated the depth of the problem within the organization and the Scouts' failure to get a handle on it. The scouting organization has been deeply mired in civil litigation since a landmark case in 2010 that resulted in $19.9 million in damages, the largest ever for a single individual against the Boy Scouts. That case triggered the release of more than 20,000 confidential documents, which became known as the “perversion files.”
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