GEORGIA
Gainesville Times
By Nick Watson
nwatson@gainesvilletimes.com
@NickWatsonTimes
POSTED: July 12, 2017
Three new lawsuits have been filed in Cobb County Superior Court by men claiming they were sexually abused by a former Gainesville scoutmaster.
Two of the cases were filed anonymously under a John Doe pseudonym and a third was by James Frank Lloyd, all of whom served as senior patrol leaders of Troop 26 under scoutmaster R. Fleming Weaver Jr.
Robert William Lawson III was the first to bring a case against Weaver in 2016. Lawson claimed he was raped by Weaver during an Order of the Arrow scouting event in 1985.
Weaver served as the scoutmaster for Troop 26 from 1969 to 1981. The troop was sponsored by First Baptist Church of Gainesville.
All three cases allege the plaintiffs were sexually abused by Weaver, and that when the church pastor at the time, Steven N. Brown, was informed of the incidents, they were not reported to police.
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