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Corvallis Gazette-Times
By CANDA FUQUA, Corvallis Gazette-Times
A Corvallis church is coming to grips with being named as a defendant in a $5 million sexual abuse lawsuit.
Portland law firm O’Donnell Clark & Crew filed suit in Benton County Circuit Court on Tuesday, claiming that the Boy Scouts of America and the host of Troop 2 in Corvallis, the First United Methodist Church, did not install proper safeguards or take precautions that could have prevented alleged abuse between a Scout leader and an 11-year-old boy.
The lawsuit alleges that former Scout leader, James “JJ” Jones, abused the firm’s client, referred to in documents by the pseudonym “Henry Doe,” about 50 times over the course of roughly one year starting in September 1984.
According to the complaint, the sexual abuse took place in the leader’s Scouting office at the church, on camping and hiking trips with the Scouts, at Jones’ home and other locations.
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