The Boy Scouts of America is facing a threat from a growing wave of lawsuits over decades-old allegations of sexual abuse.
The Scouts have been sued in multiple states in recent months by purported abuse victims, including plaintiffs taking advantage of new state laws or court decisions that are now allowing suits previously barred because of the age of the allegations.
More litigation is on the way.
A lawyer representing 150 people who say they were abused as Boy Scouts is planning a suit in New Jersey when the state's new civil statute of limitations law takes effect December 1.
New Jersey was home to the Boy Scouts' headquarters for about 25 years until 1978.
Among the plaintiffs is Greg Hunt, 62, of St. Petersburg, Florida.
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He said he was abused during a camping trip in about 1969 in Pennsylvania, where his family lived at the time.
"It'd be nice to have the Boy Scouts account for their lack of ability to do the right thing," he said.
"It would be nice for me to have the Scouts say we did wrong by you and by these other boys and by your parents."
"It's not easy with this thought rolling through your head about what happened to you when you were a kid."
The Boy Scouts also said in a statement that they're considering "all options available so we can live up to our social and moral responsibility to fairly compensate victims who suffered abuse during their time in Scouting."
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