NEW YORK CITY -- Thousands of Boy Scout leaders are facing new allegations of sexual abuse. A law firm retained by some of the alleged victims held a news conference in New York and New Jersey Tuesday ...

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has charged a former Scout Leader with Boy Scouts of America with molesting a child and possessing child pornography in Lumpkin County. On April 18, 2025, the GBI ...

After years of resisting calls for it to drop its opposition to gay members and troop leaders, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) may finally — slowly — be changing its tune. The organization said Monday ...

Charles Sheldon Bates, 61, from Kearns – just outside of Salt Lake City – was arrested and booked late Thursday night for an investigation relating to 42 sex-abuse charges. The charges include 20 ...

A former Boy Scouts of America troop leader in northeast Iowa has been sentenced to prison after pleading to inappropriate sexual contact with multiple victims over the course of a decade. James ...

Executives at the storied organization addressed their abuse database. Boy Scout officials stressed that their child abuse tracking system works – in spite of the reports of more than 12,000 instances ...

A former Boy Scout leader has been charged with more than 80 felony child sex crimes that allegedly happened over the span of 30 years. Charles Bates faces a litany of first, second, and third-degree ...

A former Utah Boy Scout leader is facing a string of child sex abuse charges over alleged incidents that spanned two decades. Charles Sheldon Bates, 61, from Kearns – just outside of Salt Lake City – ...