Dover, Del. (AP) – Attorneys have told a Delaware judge that a committee representing several Catholic entities in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy case has reached a settlement with the Irving-based Boy Scouts, and is withdrawing its objections to the BSA reorganization plan. Friday’s announcement came during the ongoing trial to determine whether the judge should approve the plan. Under the settlement virtually every Roman Catholic who was involved in Scouting would be released from liability for all Scouting-related child sex abuse claims made against the Scouts since 1976. The Boy Scouts sought bankruptcy protection in 2020 amid hundreds of individual lawsuits brought by men who say they were sexually abused as children while they were involved in Scouting.
