Major youth groups make headway against sex abuse

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Kerry Lewis, left, leans into his lawyer Paul Mones April 13, 2010, after the verdict against the Boy Scouts of America was announced in Portland, Ore. The jury decided that the Boy Scouts were negligent for allowing the abuser to associate with Lewis and other boys after admitting to a Scouts offic...

NEW YORK—The Boy Scouts have labored for decades to curtail sexual abuse of scouts by adult volunteers. But when their name was evoked in a lawsuit linked to the Penn State abuse scandal, the reference was not to problems—it was acknowledgment that the Scouts’ current prevention...

Published: 01/22/2012