NEW YORK (AP) — Close to 90,000 sexual abuse claims have been filed against the Boy Scouts of America as the Monday deadline arrived for submitting claims in the organization’s bankruptcy case. The Boy Scouts’ insurers also will be contributing, as will the Boy Scouts’ roughly 260 local councils and companies that insured them in the past. Its finances were already strained by sex abuse settlements and declining membership — now below 2 million from a peak of over 4 million in the 1970s. Under the terms of the case, no additional sex abuse claims can be filed against the Boy Scouts after Monday. “The number of claims is mind-boggling,” Mones said, noting that many abuse victims likely have not come forward.

Source: Huffington Post November 16, 2020 19:30 UTC