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3 new suits filed in Scouts abuse case
Trio of plaintiffs accuse former Gainesville scoutmaster of sexual abuse
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Three new lawsuits have been filed in Cobb County Superior Court by men claiming they were sexually abused by a former Gainesville scoutmaster. Two of the cases were filed anonymously under a John Doe pseudonym and a third was by James Frank Lloyd, all of whom served as senior patrol leaders of Troop 26 under scoutmaster R. Fleming Weaver Jr. Robert William Lawson III was the first to bring a case against Weaver in 2016. Lawson claimed he was raped by Weaver during an Order of the Arrow scouting event in 1985.