A Salt Lake County man has sued his former Cub Scout den leader, Boy Scout organizers and top leaders with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in connection with sexual abuse alleged to have happened some 28 years ago.
In a lawsuit filed late Monday in 2nd District Court in Davis County, the accuser — named only as John Doe C.J. — claims Thomas M. Thackeray first sodomized him in a fit of anger in the summer of 1991 during a den meeting of the Syracuse 5th Ward’s Cub Scout Pack.
C.J., then 7, said he intervened to prevent Thackeray, a former Logan resident who is now 72 and in jail, from violently beating Thackeray’s adoptive daughter when the den leader dragged him into a back room, subdued and raped him.