A Texas teenager repeatedly molested by his scoutmaster filed a lawsuit alleging that the "dirty little secret" in the Boy Scouts of America is that it attracts molesters and hides this from scouts and parents.

A teen who was sexually assaulted when he was 12-years-old is now suing the Boy Scouts of America and the Alamo Area Council Boy Scouts of America.

The lawsuit alleges the Boy Scouts of America knew the organization attracted child molesters and did nothing to keep them out of the youth organization.

An 18-year-old Bexar County man has filed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America and its local affiliate, the Alamo Area Council, accusing his former assitant scoutmaster of molesting him.
The unidentified man said James Hiatt sexually abused him in 2004 and 2005 when he was a member of Troop 41 in Converse, Texas.

A Converse teen whose former assistant Scoutmaster is serving a 60-year prison term for child molestation filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Boy Scouts of America and its local affiliate.
“For decades now, BSA and (the Alamo Area Council) have known ... grown men seek Scoutmaster positions to prey on young boys,” the suit states.

A local teenager has filed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America claiming the organization should have done more to protect him from a now-convicted child molester.
The lawsuit comes nearly three years after 30-year-old assistant scoutmaster James Hiatt was convicted of child molestation.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A Scouts leader in Portland subjected a boy to hundreds of instances of fondling, sodomy, oral sex and masturbation in the 1980s, even though Scout and Mormon Church leaders had been warned for years that the man was an abuser, a suit filed Tuesday alleges.

In all, the suit says, there were 14 reports of sexual abuse or inappropriate behavior on the part of the man before the boy joined a Cub Scout den in 1981.