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Boy Scouts helped alleged molesters cover tracks, files show
Over two decades, the Boy Scouts of America failed to report hundreds of alleged child molesters to police and often hid the allegations from parents and the public.
A Los Angeles Times review of 1,600 confidential files dating from 1970 to 1991 has found that Scouting officials frequently urged admitted offenders to quietly resign and helped many cover their tracks
Volunteers and employees suspected of abuse were allowed to leave citing bogus reasons such as business demands, "chronic brain dysfunction" and duties at a Shakespeare festival.
The details are contained in the organization's confidential "perversion files," a blacklist of alleged molesters, that the Scouts have used internally since 1919. Scouts' lawyers around the country have been fighting in court to keep the files from public view.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-09-16/news/la-me-boy-scouts-files-20120916_1_perversion-files-boy-scouts-files-from-public-view
Baitball Blogger
(46,703 posts)When are we going to come to grips in our society, that private lawyers have been behind many of these cover-ups?
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)for that purpose, and those in charge of that organization should be the ones carrying the blame.
Baitball Blogger
(46,703 posts)They are under no obligation to aid their clients in covering up a crime. Just the opposite.
jody
(26,624 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)If you're a homophobic organization I'm just going to assume you're hiding a pedophile ring. There is a pattern.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)They pretend gays don't exist, and now they are pretending pedophilia does not exist, what next, eagle scouts for sale?
drm604
(16,230 posts)That every organization on earth shields pedophiles? It's certainly starting to seem that way.