More than 82,000 people from all 50 states have filed sexual abuse claims against the Boy Scouts of America ahead of a bankruptcy filing deadline this week.
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The New York Times reports: “The claims, which lawyers said far eclipsed the number of abuse accusations filed in Catholic Church cases, continued to mount ahead of a Monday deadline established in bankruptcy court in Delaware, where the Boy Scouts had sought refuge this year in a bid to survive the demands for damages.”
The alleged victims range in age from 8 to 93, and some are women. The BSa said it was “devastated by the number of lives impacted by past abuse in Scouting.”
