7,766 Ineligible Volunteers List Released to the Trust in the BSA Bankruptcy

As a creditor in this Bankruptcy case, whom is Pro Se, it is daunting keeping up with the amount of obstacles that are in place to get justice for the victims of Boy Scout Leadership Abuse over the years. The Insurance Companies have obstructed Justice, and advised the Boy Scouts of America to commit felonies across state lines by counseling the BSA to remove original reports of abuse from jurisdictions of offense in order to “mail” them to Texas to BSA headquarters.

The media is not helping by putting up paywalls to keep us from learning more about these cases and the victims world wide, as well as information on this case, and the trustee payout process. Media owned by the insurance companies’ shareholders as it happens to be. These insurance companies own the very banks that this money will be deposited to, and coming from. As a matter of fact the insurance companies are forcing victims to pay for their payout requirements. Let us use math.

Lets say there are 7,766 bad actors being reported to the Trust in this Bankruptcy.
The average amount of children abused per BSA Volunteer is 16.
7,766
x 16
= 124,256

124,256
x $20,000
= 2,485,120,000

The Boy Scouts of America has turned over a trove of records that survivors of sexual abuse and their lawyers have long sought from the youth group, which emerged earlier this year from bankruptcy with a plan to pay roughly $2.4 billion to resolve more than 82,000 individual abuse claims.

The youth group last week provided the majority of the more than 7,766 records regarding so-called ineligible volunteers, maintained to keep sexual abusers out of its ranks, to a settlement trust that helps distribute payments to survivors. Most of the files haven’t previously been made available to claimants and their lawyers.

“There are over 6,300 new ineligible volunteer files that I just got access to,” said Chris Hurley, a member of the settlement trustee’s advisory committee and a lawyer for sexual-abuse survivors associated with the Boy Scouts.

Access to the records could strengthen victims’ cases against alleged perpetrators and help survivors decide whether to pursue independent reviews of their claims, which would cost them $20,000 each but potentially result in more compensation than other settlement options.

Victims’ lawyers for years have sought access to a list of alleged pedophiles held by the Boy Scouts. Some names have surfaced in lawsuits, brought into court as evidence the youth group knew children were being abused and failed to act. The entire list has never been revealed.

The Boy Scouts filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2020 facing roughly 275 pending lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct by employees or volunteers, and roughly 1,400 other known abuse claims. During the bankruptcy, the number of claims ballooned to more than 82,000 as abuse victims were urged to step forward and file claims.

Barbara Houser, a former bankruptcy judge overseeing the settlement trust, told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday the youth group told her lawyers it has turned over all records related to the ineligible volunteers.

Earlier this month, Houser asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., to extend an Oct. 19 deadline by two months for plaintiffs to apply for an independent review of claims because the Boy Scouts hadn’t produced all necessary documents.

The independent review is required for claimants seeking greater compensation than other options under the Boy Scouts’ chapter 11 reorganization plan. A claimant must pay $20,000 for the review process, including $10,000 upfront.

The 7,766 records could include troop rosters and photographs and could be important to claimants who must prove they and their abusers were connected to scouting. The documents could also help claimants evaluate whether to pursue independent review or pick another option to have claims examined.

The documents won’t be available to the public.

Gilion Dumas, a lawyer who represents sexual-abuse claimants in the Boy Scouts case, said roughly a third of existing ineligible volunteer records were made available in August and the rest last week. Dumas said she wants a six-month extension in filing for an independent review so her clients have more time to review the records if the Boy Scouts’ reorganization plan withstands appeals by some claimants and insurers.

“In the past, courts have ordered the Boy Scouts to produce subsets but not every single file,” she told The Journal on Tuesday. “Now there will be files available to attorneys in the bankruptcy that weren’t available before.”

Write to Becky Yerak at becky.yerak@wsj.com and Soma Biswas at soma.biswas@wsj.com