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Last year, the Abused in Scouting group began advertising around the country and has since found nearly 2,000 people with complaints, including one in every state. The clients range in age from 8 to 93. When the attorneys brought forward more potential suspects of abuse, the organization said it began an investigation and made 120 new reports to law enforcement agencies.

Robbie Pierce, 39, of Los Angeles, was involved in scouting throughout his childhood, with a mother who ran a Cub Scout day camp in California. In August of 1994, when he was 13, Mr. Pierce said he was on a weeklong outing at Camp Wolfeboro in the Sierra Nevada Mountains when he and several other children, including Mr. Pierce’s brother, showed signs of illness and went to the medic lodge.

There, a man who was not a medic but a leader of the camp examined each of the boys in private, Mr. Pierce said. He said the man had him take his clothes off and then fondled his genitals, saying he was looking for a hernia.

Mr. Pierce said the boys did not discuss what happened until Mr. Pierce said his brother brought it up years later and laid out what happened to him that night.

Mr. Pierce said he did not know until much later that there was a systemic problem in the Boy Scouts. He said that while the organization helped shape him and gave him many positive experiences, he now believes it must be abolished or radically changed.

“It provides pedophiles with access to boys,” Mr. Pierce said. “That has to stop. I don’t know if that means getting rid of the Boy Scouts or some new oversight.”