Vince and Linda McMahon are accused of allowing WWE announcer Mel Phillips to sexually abuse children when they worked as “ring boys.”

A new lawsuit alleges Vince McMahon knowingly enabled the sexual exploitation of children by a WWE employee in the 1980s.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Baltimore County, Maryland, alleges McMahon, his wife Linda McMahon and WWE ignored “rampant abuse” of so-called “ring boys.” The boys, as young as 12 in some instances, were allegedly abused by ringside announcer Melvin Phillips Jr. in the 1980s and 1990s.

It was "widespread knowledge" within the WWE that a ringside announcer was sexually exploiting underage "Ring Boys," a new lawsuit alleged, accusing Vince McMahon and the WWE of failing to stop the abuse.

A decades-old sexual misconduct scandal in WWE has resurfaced as a new lawsuit filed against the company and its former owner, Vince McMahon.

Vince McMahon and the WWE have been accused in a new lawsuit of knowing about and allowing the “rampant and open” sexual abuse of young boys by ringside announcer Melvin Phillips Jr. Phillips, who worked for the wrestling organization throughout the 1970s, 1980s and into the early 1990s, died in 2012.

Five former Ring Boys have accused Vince McMahon, his wife Linda McMahon, and the WWE of knowing about and failing to stop a ringside announcer/ring crew chief from sexually exploiting them.