February 2011

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A lawyer who won a $19 million jury verdict against the Boy Scouts of America in Oregon has taken the case of a man who claims he was molested as a youth by a Boy Scout leader in Alaska, a newspaper reported Thursday.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska- An unidentified man filed a lawsuit Wednesday afternoon in Alaska Superior Court claiming he was sexually molested by a Boy Scout leader in Anchorage when he was a young boy.

The man, identified as Barry Doe, is suing the The Boy Scouts of America, the Great Alaska Council, Boy Scouts of America and the Western Alaska Council of Boy Scouts of America.

An Anchorage man filed a lawsuit in state Superior Court Wednesday alleging he was sexually abused as a child in the 1970s by his Boy Scout leader, say his attorneys.

The lawsuit is against the Boy Scouts of America and the Boy Scout's Great Alaska Council. It says the man was abused by a scout leader named Dean Wendall You, who is listed on the Alaska sex offender registry for having been convicted of attempted sexual abuse of a minor in 1997, a separate case. You is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit.

A local Boy Scout troop, its church sponsor, and regional and national Boy Scout agencies are alleged in a civil lawsuit to be responsible for failing to prevent sexual abuse of a local Boy Scout by his Scoutmaster in the mid-­‐1970s.