The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) believes more than 7,800 of its former leaders were involved in sexually abusing children over the course of 72 years, according to newly exposed court testimony, the CNN website reports today (April 24, 2019).
The Boys Scouts identified more than 12,000 alleged victims in that time period from 1944 through 2016, according to the testimony, which was published yesterday by Atty. Jeff Anderson, who specializes in representing sexual abuse victims.
The numbers, Anderson said, come from what the BSA calls its volunteer screening database -- a list of volunteers and others that the Boy Scouts removed and banned from its organization over accusations of policy violations, including allegations of sexual abuse.
The 7,800 includes scout leaders and masters across the country accused of sexually assaulting "children under their charge," Anderson said yesterday at a news conference in New York.
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