Boy Scouts Of America Files For Bankruptcy

ExcellentTraffic123 · 2020-02-18T20:16:25+00:00

Crossing my fingers that the Catholic Church is next.

BannanasAreEvil · 2020-02-18T19:52:36+00:00

Ugh, I just donated money to my sons troop as they were doing a fundraiser. Please don't take this the wrong way, but I don't want my money going to pay for the abuse others have suffered. What I mean is, I donated the money to help our local troop stay financially solvent so the programs and activities they take part in would continue.

No claims of sexual abuse as far as I know have taken part in our local boy scouts community and I really hope they are not punished because the organization as a whole covered up cases of abuse. I really don't agree with suing for financial gain from abuse, I want to see people put in jail but any monetary compensation seems a little weird to me.

Anyways, we have a "den meeting" tonight and I wonder if this will be brought up.

Edit

Just did some further reading, the lawyers of the plaintiffs want to go after all local organizations as well to gather as many assets as they can. This means my sons troup that I just donated a good portion of money too is available to be used to pay for the abuse cases. I just paid this last week in hopes it would help our local troop out and now this lawsuit could completely destroy the Boy Scouts. I was never a scout, I wanted to be but my parents couldn't afford it and frankly were too busy getting drunk to take me to these things even if I was a scout. So when my son wanted to join I was all for it and have been trying to contribute as much as possible. I've paid for other kids enrollment fees from our area when I overheard their parents say they couldn't afford it.

I feel sorry for the victims, they deserve justice but the boy scouts do offer something for boys and young men that I do not want to see taken away from them because of this! My son has done nothing wrong, his troop has done nothing wrong and they will be punished and I don't think the lawyers really care, after all the more money they win for their clients is the more money they get themselves.

Dorkfarces · 2020-02-18T22:50:17+00:00

Damn, me and my brothers were all in scouts. I didn't stay long, I'm the youngest and by my time the local dens were a shadow of their former glory in the 80s.

Well, we can always start Pioneers I guess

Forgetaboutthelonely · 2020-02-19T01:58:09+00:00

I remember being in the cub scouts. But I'm also canadian. And I think that's a different thing?

Our local group was kind of terrible mind you, it was ran by two well intentioned but utterly incompetent people who were kind of outdoorsy

I ended up quitting because we ended up doing nothing but "knot practice" for like two months straight.

Though I do hope local clubs don't shut down because of this, and can hopefully rebrand and keep the practice alive.

redsnake15 · 2020-02-23T09:12:41+00:00

Damn this just ruined my day I loved boy scouts growing up it taught me life skills, survival skills got into a bit of light hearted mischief at scout camp and really taught me how to achieve goals and the pride of earning a badge moving up in rank or doing a charity project.

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