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Summary of Sexual Abuse Claims in Chapter 11 Cases of Boy Scouts of America
There are approximately 119,380 sexual abuse claims filed. Of those claims, the Tort Claimants’
Committee estimates that there are approximately 82,458 unique claims if the amended and
superseded and multiple claims filed on account of the same survivor are removed. The summary
of sexual abuse claims below uses the set of 82,458 of claim for purposes of claims summary
below.1
The Tort Claimants’ Committee has broken down the sexual abuse claims in various categories
for the purpose of disclosing where and when the sexual abuse claims arose and the identity of
certain of the parties that are implicated in the alleged sexual abuse.
Attached hereto as Exhibit 1 is a chart that shows the sexual abuse claims broken down by the
year in which they first arose. Please note that there approximately 6,165 claims did not provide
a date for when the sexual abuse occurred. As a result, those claims have not been assigned a
year in which the abuse first arose.
Attached hereto as Exhibit 2 is a chart that shows the claims broken down by the state or
jurisdiction in which they arose. Please note there are approximately 3,988 claims that did not
provide a location of abuse. Those claims are reflected by YY or ZZ in the codes used to identify
the applicable state or jurisdiction. Those claims have not been assigned a state or other
jurisdiction.
Attached hereto as Exhibit 3 is a chart that shows the claims broken down by the Local Council
implicated in the sexual abuse. Please note there are approximately 38,633 sexual abuse claims
that did not identify a Local Council. In addition, certain sexual abuse claims implicated more
than one Local Council. In those instances, the claims are categorized implicating more than one
council.
Attached hereto as Exhibit 4 is a chart that shows the sexual abuse claims broken down by the
Chartered Organization / Sponsoring Organization implicated in the sexual abuse. Please note
that approximately 44,305 claims did not identify a Chartered Organization / Sponsoring
Organization.
The information summarized in the attached charts was exported by the Boy Scouts’
professionals from the filed sexual abuse claims. It has come to the attention of the Tort
Claimants’ Committee’s professionals that not all the information was exported error free. The
Tort Claimants’ Committee intends to address with the Boy Scouts’ professionals any
information discrepancies in the claims data to help in ensure the information is collected
uniformly and accurately.
If you have any questions about the attached, please send them to BSASurvivors@pszjlaw.com.
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All information herein was gathered from electronic exportation of data from the sexual abuse proofs of claim.
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EXHIBIT 1
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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Evaluation of Survivor Claims by Year
Year Claims Year Claims Year Claims
1905 1 1959 980 1991 1,016
1920 1 1960 1,294 1992 1,001
1928 1 1961 1,096 1993 939
1930 3 1962 1,323 1994 876
1931 1 1963 1,457 1995 828
1932 1 1964 1,641 1996 802
1933 2 1965 1,666 1997 685
1934 2 1966 1,724 1998 682
1935 6 1967 2,281 1999 577
1936 2 1968 2,681 2000 538
1937 6 1969 2,457 2001 386
1938 10 1970 2,975 2002 371
1939 12 1971 2,487 2003 345
1940 16 1972 2,934 2004 260
1941 30 1973 2,785 2005 234
1942 38 1974 2,874 2006 207
1943 40 1975 2,538 2007 179
1944 55 1976 2,421 2008 169
1945 59 1977 2,245 2009 147
1946 89 1978 2,206 2010 133
1947 118 1979 1,826 2011 93
1948 118 1980 2,054 2012 89
1949 152 1981 1,639 2013 62
1950 255 1982 1,723 2014 63
1951 234 1983 1,586 2015 38
1952 317 1984 1,508 2016 45
1953 412 1985 1,496 2017 47
1954 459 1986 1,397 2018 37
1955 576 1987 1,293 2019 20
1956 594 1988 1,229 2020 10
1957 785 1989 1,173 (blank) 6,165
1958 855 1990 1,175
TOTAL 82,458
EXHIBIT 2
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