An Oregon jury has found the Boy Scouts of America negligent for the sexual abuse of a Boy Scout that occurred nearly three decades ago. The victim, 38-year-old Kerry Lewis, was awarded $1.4 million in economic damages on Tuesday.

The jury also determined that Lewis was entitled to punitive damages from the Boy Scouts of America. He is seeking up to $25 million. The trial will continue next week to resolve that issue.

According to the Associated Press, from 1984 through 1992, the Scouts were sued at least 60 times for alleged sex abuse with settlements and judgments totaling more than $16 million.

Lewis, who was sexually abused by Assistant Scoutmaster Timur Dykes in the 1980s, blamed the Boy Scouts of America, its local body, the Portland-based Cascade Pacific Council, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – the troop’s sponsor – for failing to protect him. Dykes was eventually convicted of various abused charges and spent time in prison.

In 1983, Dykes told a bishop from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that he had molested 17 boy scouts, including Lewis. Lewis’ attorneys argued that the Boy Scouts organization was reckless for allowing Dykes to continue to associate with young scouts even after his admission to the bishop.

According to the Associated Press, a key part of Lewis’ case was the introduction as evidence of more than 1,000 secret files – nicknamed the “perversion files” – kept by the Boy Scouts of America at the group’s national headquarters from 1965 to mid-1984. Lewis’ attorneys argued the information should not have been kept from parents.

Of the $1.4 million damage award, the Boy Scouts of America is responsible for 60 percent, or $840,000. The Council must pay $210,000. The church had already settled with Lewis, and paid him $350,000.

Several other lawsuits filed by men who say they were abused by Dykes are still pending.