An Oregon court has made public thousands of pages of records belonging to the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). <\/p>\n
The records detail allegations of sexual abuse by volunteers within the organization and are officially known as the Ineligible Volunteer Files, but are commonly referred to among Boy Scout leaders as the \u201cperversion files.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese files and the allegations of abuse that they contain are truly disturbing,\u201d said Zephyrhills personal injury lawyer Robert Alston in a statement. \u201cBoy Scout volunteers are entrusted with the safety of millions of young boys.\u201d<\/p>\n
The files were submitted as evidence in a 2010 lawsuit in Oregon in which sexual abuse was alleged. The Oregon Supreme Court ruled that the documents must be made public under the state’s open records law. In that lawsuit, six former Boy Scouts alleged that a scout leader had sexually abused them in the 1980s. The BSA lost that case, and the plaintiffs were (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Oregon court has made public thousands of pages of records belonging to the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). The records detail allegations of sexual abuse by volunteers within the organization and are officially known as the Ineligible Volunteer Files,…<\/span><\/p>\n