Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, which operates six youth centers in New York City, told a bankruptcy judge on Friday that it intends to use its chapter 11 case to mediate more than a hundred sexual abuse claims involving a doctor who volunteered at the centers decades ago, Reuters reported. Madison Square, which filed for chapter 11 protection in New York on Thursday, told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane at a Friday hearing that a bankruptcy mediation is the only way to bring sexual abuse claimants and insurers to the negotiating table before the nonprofit runs out of funds. "We're here to fairly and equitably compensate survivors of what they describe as hideous sexual abuse that took place many years ago at Madison's former premises," attorney Alan Kornberg said. Without bankruptcy protections, the 138-year-old youth organization would likely run out of money in 60 days and be forced to liquidate, Kornberg said. Nearly all of the abuse claims stem from the conduct of a single doctor, Reginald Archibald, who volunteered at Madison from the 1940s to the 1980s. Archibald, who died in 2007, also worked as a pediatric endocrinologist at Rockefeller University Hospital, which revealed Archibald’s history of sexual misconduct in a 2018 investigation.
