A team of attorneys says it has identified more than 250 abusers connected to the Boy Scouts of America, as the organization considers filing for bankruptcy ahead of an expected rush of sexual-misconduct lawsuits, the Wall Street Journal reported. The alleged abusers aren’t named in the Boy Scout’s publicly available ineligible-volunteer files and may not be known to the organization, said Tim Kosnoff, who leads the legal team. The Boy Scouts add individuals to the ineligible-volunteer list based on known or suspected violations of its policies. Kosnoff said that the abusers they have identified victimized more than 400 boys or men, who are now aged 14- to 97-years-old, while they were members of the Boy Scouts. The abuse took place in 49 states and Puerto Rico from the 1950s to 2017, the lawyers said. The lawyers said that they were taking as many as 30 intake calls a day from potential new clients who say they were abused. “Nine out of 10 are identifying perpetrators who do not appear in the perversion files,” Kosnoff said, referring to the ineligible-volunteer files.
