Bankruptcy on the Table as Boy Scouts Confront Sex Abuse Claims
Plaintiffs say the Boy Scouts didn’t do enough to protect them. Now the organization is taking measures to protect itself.
Robb Lawson
Photographer: Melissa Golden for BloombergIt took Robb Lawson until he was 45 to finally confront a dark memory from his days as a Boy Scout.
Lawson was a teenager at the time, a member of a troop in Georgia, picked to attend a wilderness challenge to win entry in the Scouts’ prestigious Order of the Arrow. He recalls that he wasn’t feeling well, and a trip leader took him to a tent and raped him.