Boy Scouts councils under pressure to share sex-abuse compensation costs
Men tell of sexual abuse by scoutmaster decades ago
Kosnoff said he worries some local councils might try to transfer assets in a way that would put them out of reach of bankruptcy proceedings. He wants Silverstein to prohibit that. “The local councils can choose how they want to participate,” he said. “They can do it in state court, or they can do it with the bankruptcy process. As far as we’re concerned, the time for delay is over.”New York, New Jersey and California were the most populous states acting last year to modify their statutes of limitations so that people, for a limited period, could sue over long-ago sex abuse.
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