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According to court documents released as part of the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy filing, 68 claims of abuse have been made against the Allegheny Highlands Council.
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Nearly 70 claims of sexual abuse have been filed against the local Boy Scouts council, court documents recently released as part of the organization’s bankruptcy case indicate.
The Allegheny Highlands Council is based in Falconer and serves Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany counties in New York and McKean and Potter counties in Pennsylvania.
The Irving, Texas-based BSA sought bankruptcy protection in February 2020 in an effort to halt hundreds of individual lawsuits and create a compensation fund for men who were molested as youngsters decades ago by scoutmasters or other leaders.