A 28-year-old plaintiff filed a complaint Wednesday in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas against the Boy Scouts of America and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because of sexual abuse by his scoutmaster, who also was a church youth leader.
The lawsuit could presage a sexual-abuse scandal involving more major institutions in Pennsylvania, after the recent similar scandals involving the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia and Penn State University.
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