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Boy Scout List Contains Florida Names

At least 160 men in Florida are on the list of more than 1000 former Boy Scout leaders and volunteers accused of sexually abusing young scouts from the years between 1965 and 1985. The information comes out of a lawsuit filed in Oregon by a firm who won an $18 million judgment against the Boy Scouts two years ago.

Lawyers in that case say the Boy Scouts of America kept careful records of the suspects and allegations by flagging them as "ineligible to volunteer." But they were never reported to authorities.

Jeffrey Herman is a South Florida attorney who has represented many victims abused by Catholic priests. He says this resembles the same type of cover-up. 

Herman said. "I have cases in Florida for Boy Scout leaders - recent cases - where one of the Boy Scout leaders, one of the  cases, he was a leader who came from two different states before Florida Accused in the Boy Scouts of abusing kids in other states, comes to Florida and becomes a boy scout leader here, and then abuses kids here."

Herman says many - but not all - of those suspected of abuse were single me with no children of their own in Scouting.

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