Litigation

JURY AWARDS $18.5 IN PUNITIVE DAMAGES IN SEX ABUSE CASE AGAINST BOY SCOUTS

By Mark P. Loftus, Esq.

Wow - for some reason I didn't see this.

In my April 23 2010 post, I discussed the $1.4 million dollar jury verdict against the Boy Scouts of America. The verdict, on behalf of plaintiff Kerry Lewis, represented only the compensatory damages for the sexual abuse he endured back in the 1980's at the hands of Scoutmaster Timur Dykes[pictured below] while Lewis was a Boy Scout. At that time, the jury had not decided on punitive damages.

[Timur Dykes]

Well, the jury came back last week, with an enormous award against the Boy Scouts. $18.5 million dollars!! Lawyers for Lewis had argued that the Boy Scouts were aware that Dykes had abused at least one child in the early 1980's. The Boy Scouts denied they had any such knowledge.

Full post as published by Illinois Lawyer Blog on May 04, 2010 (boomark / email).