Alleged Sexual Abuse Victim Files Civil Lawsuit Against Boy Scouts of America

and Greater Los Angeles Council

A civil lawsuit has been filed in California Superior Court of Los Angeles Central District on behalf
of a former Boy Scout who alleges he was sexually abused while he was a minor working at the
Forest Lawn Boy Scout Reservation in the summer of 2015.

Los Angeles, CA, March 18, 2019 --(PR.com)-- Los Angeles Attorney Paul Mones has filed a five-count
civil lawsuit in California Superior Court of Los Angeles Central District on March 13, on behalf of an
alleged former Boy Scout who was a minor while working at Forest Lawn Scout Reservation in the
summer of 2015. The Plaintiff, designated as John Doe, allegedly suffered multiple acts of sexual assault
by an adult Boy Scout leader named Sean Justin Lee, who worked at the camp as an employee of the Los
Angeles Area Boy Scout Council.

The lawsuit alleges: the Plaintiff was a minor - at the time of the sexual abuse and had been involved in
Scouting since he was 8 years old; in the summer of 2014 and 15, the Plaintiff worked at the Forest Lawn
Camp, located east of Lake Arrowhead, CA, as a Lifeguard and group leader; during the summer of 2015,
the Plaintiff was sexually assaulted by Defendant Lee on an overnight outing; and, within a week of the
first sexual assault, Defendant Lee sexually assaulted him again.

The lawsuit further alleges that the camp administration, including the director and assistant director,
knew that Sean Lee was acting sexually inappropriately and violating BSA youth protection guidelines
with other minor Scouts prior to Lee's sexual abuse of Plaintiff. The lawsuit alleges that prior to the abuse
of Plaintiff by Lee, a minor Scout reported to the camp director and another supervising camp employee
that he was a victim of inappropriate sexual behavior by Lee.

"Child serving institutions like the Boy Scouts of America, the largest youth organization in the nation,
must have as their number one priority the safety of the children placed in their care. This is not a case
from 30 or 40 years ago as the public so often reads about, but rather the alleged sexual abuse here
occurred less than 5 years ago,” Mones said. “The problem of sexual abuse by trusted adult leaders is
unfortunately a pervasive one," Mones said. “I am proud that my client had the courage to come forward.
Victims of sexual abuse in institutions must know that they have the right to seek justice in our court
system for the wrings done to them.”

The lawsuit also details the historical failure of the Boy Scouts of America to protect its members from
sexual abuse by its adult leaders. The lawsuit alleges that the BSA started documenting the problem of the
sexual abuse of scouts by their adult leaders in 1920's, and these files were known as the Perversion Files.
In a 2010 sexual abuse case in Portland, Oregon, Paul Mones and his legal team obtained a court order
that forced the BSA, for the first time in its history, to release about 1200 files containing over 20,000
pages and covering the period 1965 through 1985. That case ultimately resulted in an $19.9 million jury
verdict against the Boy Scouts of America - the largest verdict ever rendered against the Boy Scouts of
America.

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The lawsuit alleges that since the Perversion Files were created prior to Plaintiff's participation in
Scouting, the BSA had ample evidence that scouting was continuously attracting child molesters and that
scouting remained attractive to child molesters by providing the sexual abuser access to scouts who were
alone and away from their parents in secluded settings like overnight hikes and summer camps.

The lawsuit alleges that the Defendants breached their duty of care to the minor Plaintiff by allowing Lee
to come into contact with Plaintiff without supervision and that they not only failed to protect Plaintiff
from Lee who had acted sexually inappropriately with other scouts at the camp but as well failed to
adequately warn Plaintiff and his parents of the dangers posed by adult leaders who sexually abuse
scouts. As a direct result of the Defendants' alleged negligence and failure to warn the Plaintiff or his
parents, the lawsuit claims that Plaintiff has suffered, and continues to suffer pain, shock, emotional
distress, and loss of enjoyment of life and that the impact of the sexual assault has prevented and will
continue to prevent him from performing daily activities and obtaining full enjoyment of life.

The lawsuit asks for unspecified damages and a jury trial.

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Contact Information:
Paul Mones, Attorney
Paul Mones
310-566-7418
Contact via Email
https://www.paulmones.com
Mobile: ‭(503) 706-7318‬

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