Many went on to join other troops, only to face more allegations of child abuse. Instead of informing authorities, the officials told the subjects of the allegations to quietly leave the organization.
Cover-ups by Scout officials were frequent. More than half of the claimants, according to Tim Kosnoff, an attorney who has spent years representing victims of child sexual abuse, described behavior that would constitute a Class A felony - “the most serious child sex offenses,” Kosnoff said. The allegations of sexual abuse against the Boy Scouts include highly violent attacks. By way of comparison, in the last 15 years there have been some 15,000 credible child sex abuse allegations reported against the Catholic Church. passed a milestone: the end of a window of less than nine months in which nearly 92,700 people came forward with shocking sexual abuse claims against the Boy Scouts of America.
