Irving-based Boy Scouts hit with $7 million verdict in sex abuse case

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3. I'm a bit puzzled by this part.

In Friday’s verdict, the jury also cleared the local Connecticut Yankee Council of the Boy Scouts of America, formerly known as the Fairfield County Council of Boy Scouts of America, of any wrongdoing in connection with the alleged sexual abuse.

So the local council registered and vetted the child molester and the local troop and council ignored the earlier complaint about the molestation? And yet the jury cleared the local troop and council of wrongdoing and assigned blame to the national organization? That doesn't seem to make sense.