Not-so-good Scouts
The Boy Scouts and the Mormon Church face another lawsuit for alleged child sexual abuse, this one for $5.1 million.
A Portland man alleges that a Boy Scout and Mormon youth leader abused him as a Scout in Idaho and Oregon between 1967 and 1970.
The youth leader, now 72, was convicted in Idaho, in 1985 of felony child abuse in an unrelated case.
A 1990 letter from Scout Council says:"Arnold's ecclesiastical leader . . . had firsthand knowledge of child sexual molestations of one or more Scouts. No charges were filed as the mother was talked out of it at the time by church leaders."
The plaintiff, now 53, is the seventh Portland man suing the Boy Scouts for alleged sexual abuse. Combined, all the suits seek $33 million.
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