The Boy Scouts of America s bankruptcy reorganization plan submitted Monday leaves many unanswered questions about how it will resolve tens of thousands of sexual abuse claims by former Boy Scouts.
Among the suits is one filed in 2016 by Robert William Lawson III of Gainesville, who accused a former Gainesville scoutmaster of raping him when he was teenager in 1985. The suit alleges that the scoutmaster, R. Fleming Weaver Jr., raped Lawson on a scouting event at Camp Rainey Mountain.
While Lawson s suit claims he was abused several times over a weekend at the camp, it also contends others were abused at the scout facility behind the church. Weaver served as a Scoutmaster from 1969 until 1981 at Troop 26 which is sponsored by First Baptist Church of Gainesville.