Thousands of Boy Scout leaders are facing new allegations of sexual abuse.
A law firm retained by some of the alleged victims held a news conference in New York and New Jersey Tuesday.
"When we got this information, we had to sound the alarm," said attorney Jeff Anderson.
Anderson called it a system of denial and cover-ups and claimed the Boy Scouts have so called "perversion files" on child abusers within their ranks dating back to the 1940s.
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