A splintered Connecticut Supreme Court has thrown out a $12 million award against the Boy Scouts of America following a 2014 trial in which a former scout claimed he was sexually abused by his troop leader in the 1970s.
Four of the court’s justices agreed with Chief Justice Chase Rogers that the trial judge had improperly rejected the defense’s requested jury charge that, in order to be found liable for the John Doe plaintiff’s abuse, the BSA would have had to know or have reason to know that scout leader Siegfried Hepp posed a threat to the boy.
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