NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- More people coming forward to join a lawsuit filed earlier this year in Arkansas against the Boy Scouts of America claiming sexual abuse.

The additional victims, James Allen and Lavell Campbell, both currently living in other states, are claiming sexual abuse at the hands of the same scout master accused of sexually abusing the initial plaintiff in the case.

All three victims were in the same Webelos Unit at the same time.

“It’s something that they’ve lived with every day of their lives since it occurred,” says Josh Gillispie, attorney to the victims.

Gillispie is representing the victims in the lawsuit filed against the Boy Scouts of America back in June with plaintiff, William Stevens. Gillispie says he filed an amended version Thursday adding the two additional victims. All of whom are claiming sexual abuse allegations against Scout Master Samuel C. Otts, who led a troop in Hot Springs.

“It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done but I need to do it,” says Stevens, after the initial filing. “I need other people to know they weren’t the only one.”

At the time when the abuse was happening between 1978 and 1980 all of the victims listed were between the ages of 10 – 12.

“I think it’s fair to say they [Allen and Campbell] were both inspired by Williams’ courage and they felt an obligation to stand with him,” says Gillispie.

The lawsuit states that between 1935 and 1980 the Boy Scouts of America Organization identified thousands of scout leaders who were believed to have sexually abused boys in the scouting program nationwide.

“These are files that the Boy Scouts have been keeping for decades on alleged pedophiles,” says Gillispie.

Otts’ file initially came to light through unrelated litigation in another state where Otts was accused of having sexually abused a boy in Georgia in the years just before he came to Arkansas.

“They knew what he was and they let him take these boys into the woods anyway and that is… that’s the case,” says Gillispie.

The Boy Scouts of America did not respond to our efforts to contact them.