A lawsuit filed by an American boy scout, now 20 years old, against the organization goes beyond pursuing punitive damages against a local scouting council for sexual molestation by a volunteer leader in 2007.

The said lawsuit also opens a "Pandora Box" of the history of sexual perversions covering three decades after Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Donna Geck cleared for use in the lawsuit 16 years of documents considered classified information by the Scouts. It covers the years 1991 through 2007, reports AP.

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According to the victim's lawyer, Tim Hale, by the time the case is resolved, they would have received a CD with 100,000 pages of files to review and deliberate. Outside the Scouts, they would be the first people in the U.S. to read the perversion files.

Hale, in his opening statement on Monday at the civil trial in California, argued that the Boy Scouts of America has documented for almost 100 years the "sordid history of child sexual abuse" in the organization. His client was 13 when molested in 2007 by a volunteer leader.

Hale filed on behalf of the victim a negligence lawsuit that the Scouts didn't educate, train and warned parents and volunteers about the dangers of sex abuse. That's beside the punitive damage the victim sought for the sexual abuse.

The accused is former Boy Scout leader Al Stein, who in 2009 pleaded no contest to felony child endangerment charges, according to Megan's Law, the official Internet website of the California Department of Justice.

Stein's files is one of estimated 9,000 to 10,000 files held by the Scouts covering the years 1920 through 2007.

Hale said that while the abuses goes decades back, "What has not been going on is notice to the public and notice to (the plaintiff) and his parents."

The victim said as a result of an assault by Stein at a Christmas tree lot, he suffered bruises and laceration and continues to suffer from anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. He met again with Stein a few days after the assault and brought a hidden tape recorder - which will be his evidence - to get a confession when Stein asked him if he told his mother about the assault.

When the victim filed a criminal case against Stein, he saw the volunteer leader waiting inside his car parked outside the victim's high school. This prompted him to shift to home school and quit baseball as well as stop hanging out with friends.

He said he became so scared of Stein that he stayed inside his bedroom most of the time and once vomited in public when he unexpectedly saw his molester.

Boy Scouts lawyer Nicholas Heldt admits the organization has a long history of sex abuse accusations but said it has put in place a child protection program and parent training. As of 2007, 27 adult volunteers have been kicked out yearly for the past five years for sexual abuse, although that number is just a fraction of the 1.5 million volunteers across the U.S.

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