IDAHO FALLS — The recent arrest of a 67-year-old man in Driggs, accused of possessing explicit images of children, was one of the men accused in a high-profile lawsuit against The Boy Scouts of America and The Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints.

Dennis Empey was charged on Aug. 20 with felony possession and distribution of child pornography, two felony charges of child sexual battery through solicitation and two misdemeanors for disseminating materials to minors.

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Lawsuits against the Boy Scouts

The lawsuits against the Scouts began in 2005, when the two brothers reported their abuse at the hands of a Scout camp counselor when they were little in 1997.

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