Victims of child sexual abuse in Ohio while in the Boy Scouts will see more compensation.

Victims of child sexual abuse in Ohio will see more compensation for the crimes committed against them while in the Boy Scouts of America…after Gov., DeWine signs a new law, guaranteeing it. The measure was enacted amid the organization’s bankruptcy settlement, first filed in 2020…after tens of thousands of men, nationwide…brought forth claims they had been sexually abused by their Scout leaders. Nearly 2,000 of those men are from Ohio. The organization filed bankruptcy in order to continue operating while still partially compensating victims after an onslaught of lawsuits against them. The amount that victims receive varies state by state based on the length of the statute of limitations for civil claims…as well as the length and severity of each abuse case. Until the governor signed off on the new law, Ohio’s current civil statute of limitations in bankruptcy cases was 12 years.