Lawsuit Accuses Boy Scouts of Failing to protect boy from molester

A man who says he was molested by a scout leader when he was 10 is suing the Boy Scouts of America and the Chicago Area Council, claiming they knew for years that the leader had a record of assaulting boys yet failed to keep him out of scouting. The lawsuit by "John Doe" cites once-private files released in October detailing alleged child abuse by more than 1,200 scoutmasters and other volunteers across the country. Among those named in the files was Thomas Hacker, convicted in 1989 of sexually assaulting three boys while a Boy Scout leader in the south suburbs.