“This settlement is a bittersweet resolution for the generations of children that the Boy Scouts of America failed to protect,” said Chicago attorney Christopher Hurley, part of a firm representing some 4,000 men who filed claims. “While there is some satisfaction in seeing the Scouts acknowledge their fault, and (the) magnitude of this settlement is historic, not one of my clients would have traded money for his lost youth.”
Boy Scouts agree to $850 million settlement over child sex abuse claims
