A sexually abused former US boy scout has been awarded punitive damages of $18.5m (£12m) at a trial which cast light on the organisation's workings.
The order against the Boy Scouts of America for negligence was made by an Oregon jury. It is on top of an earlier award of $1.4m in compensatory damages.
Kerry Lewis, now 38, was abused by an assistant scoutmaster in the 1980s.
The BSA was planning to appeal against the court verdict, insisting it had always stood against child abuse.
During the trial, lawyers won the right of access to the Boy Scouts' secret files on suspected sexual predators.
These documents, formally known as "ineligible volunteer" files and nicknamed the "perversion files", have been compiled for nearly a century, since the organisation was formed.
They were kept under lock and key at BSA headquarters in Irving, Texas, and the organisation argued in court that its system was put to good use, quietly keeping out molesters for decades.
But Mr Lewis's lawyers argued that the BSA should have brought the files out into the open decades ago, and the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that jurors should be allowed to see about 1,000 of the files, from 1965-85. - BBC
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