Boy Scout councils under pressure to share sex abuse costs

The settlement comes as more than 82,000 sexual abuse claimants face a Dec. 28 deadline to vote on a previously announced Boy Scouts reorganization plan.

Thirteen people allege Devereux allowed them to be sexually abused as children while in the organization’s care and failed to stop that abuse.

Victims who were previously barred from suing because they didn’t act during the allotted time period now have a two-year window to file claims.