Scouts must pay $18.5 million in abuse case

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Scouts must pay $18.5 million in abuse case

Judge awards punitive damages to Oregon man molested by Scoutmaster

PORTLAND, Ore. - A jury on Friday ordered the Boy Scouts of America to pay $18.5 million to an Oregon man sexually abused by a former assistant Scoutmaster in the early 1980s.

Lawyers for Kerry Lewis had asked the jury to award at least $25 million to punish the Boy Scouts for what the jury had already agreed in the first phase of the trial was reckless and outrageous conduct.

Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36746861/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

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