The parents of a 13-year-old boy have sued the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America in a Harris County state district court alleging their son was assaulted by older scouts on a camping trip, including threats that he was going to be “waterboarded” before being knocked unconscious by a punch to the face.
Smoot and Paige Hull allege in Hull v. Boy Scouts of America that their son, PH, suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of the 2016 attack, which occurred while he was returning from a Boy Scout camping trip on a chartered bus.
