Hidden story of Boy Scouts of America

For more than a century, tens of millions of American young people have been members of the Boy Scouts of America, begging them to serve God and the country and always helping others, keeping them “physically strong, mentally awake and morally toward “, as dictated in the iconic Scout Boy oath. Over the decades, their platinum rays have included the best and most bright, among them Bill Clinton, Steven Spielberg and Hank Aaron, to name only a few.

At the same time, the Oorginal Scouting Organization founded by Englishman Robert Baden-Powell, now celebrating its 115th anniversary —- rich and powerful, with real estate properties only valued in billions of dollars. Boy Scout are American icons, often documented by no less than Norman Rockwell himself. His carefully created, carefully created images, making uniformed scouts spanning their colorful syrups and signs of merits obtained with difficulty, while walks and camping gave a message of scouting as a beacon of virtue, a makeup of prominent men.

At least until 2012, when a Pulitzer winner reporter for Los Angeles Times, Kim Christensen, exploded for a century of secret, revealing that more than 82,000 former companies were sexually abused by their bodies.

“Known within the scout as ‘perversion files’, recordings detail a wonderful model of sexual abuse by troop leaders and volunteers and covering local and national boys officials and a long institutional supremacy,” writes Christenssen in the exhibition His strict, published after death, “In my honor, the secret story of the Grand Central boy’s scouts.

Correction Folders – a secret black list of trabbing scout leaders, 127 in all, and known only to three people – contain letters from the dogs of boys who would reveal to their parents that they would be sexually abused from their scoutmasters. And boys names of names.

The charges were then forwarded to the Boy Scouts of America headquarters, in North Brunswick, Nj. But nothing was done. According to Christensen, scout leaders hid the terrible accusations in a closed metal file cabinet – along with “hundreds of similar accounts of children’s sexual abuse for decades”.

And they would still stay with scout officials who do not take any punitive action. They would see that it was to defend the reputation of the boys, when, in fact, according to the author, it was to preserve the image of Boy Scouts, a brand that generated millions of dollars from second -paying parents such as supporting religious organizations and of business.

“From 1971 to 1993, it was a generation of peace of sexual abuse at scouting,” writes Christensen.

But the scandal that had grown for years was ready to blow openly, thanks to the author’s 10-year investigation.

Christensen found that there were no background controls for potential scout leaders, at men who often turned out to be harassing criminal history. “The BSA recorded about 230 men with preliminary arrests or sentences for sex crimes against children” – men who abused about 400 scouts, writes the author. Many of these leaders were finally found guilty of abuse. When the organization finally the Fingerprint Institute in 1994, it included only new volunteers.

The author details many terrible cases of abuse, but some are particularly severe. There is a helper Timur Dykes, a convicted child convicted who confessed to the harassment of boys in a Scout Portland troupe, using two of his pet and a snake to seduce young boys in his home.

Dykes confessed to the harassment of 16 of the 30 boys in his body, and was accused of a offense violation and was tested, but never stop keeping sleep waiting
In another case documented by the author, scout leader Alaskan Air Force SGT. Kenneth Burns Jr. It was pulled out of a package to sleep nude with the scouts of the cubs and showing them pornography. He was charged with harassing a hundred boys and convicted of a sex crime in Utah in 2007.

Rodger Beatty Molested Boys in his body Scout in Newport, re. He was able to leave quietly to discover and re-sign under false claims to avoid criminal consequences. Christenssen writes that some predators were caught, and some reappeared in other bodies, changing their names slightly and continue sexual abuse of scouts.

Beatty spread the mattresses on the floor of his living room during sleep and then withdrew to attack scouts one by one.

The most popular abuser of the new scouts was Thomas Hacker, who was suffering a 100-year prison term for harassing more than 100 boys from 1961 until the late 1980s when he died in prison. “He was a monster,” as well as a Conman and Master’s manipulator, the author writes.

Hacker harassed a boy for three years more than 1,000 times and threatened to kill his parents if they were told abuse. Hacker only lost interest when the boy returned 13 years old.

Today, its longevity is not guaranteed. The Boy Scout of America presented for the protection of bankruptcy in February 2020. At the time, the organization’s assets reaching an impressive $ 1.2 billion – consisting of cash, shares, bonds, real estate and an art collection of Norman Rockwell paintings. But there were still 275 cases pending court and 1,400 claims that were not yet filed as a lawsuit.

And those lawsuits were costly, a total of $ 89 million in a case against the hacker of Serral-Predator, who “helped in sliding fats to slide the 110-year-old organization in bankruptcy,” writes Christensen. The new legislation that allows victims of abuse to sue up to the age of 55 Emperor further the Emperor of the BSA.

More than three years after the BSA filed bankruptcy, thousands of plaintiffs have not yet been paid. Insurers have argued that the very existence of “perversion files” was evidence that BSA was aware of the abuse of the crawling and did not be done to protect youth membership – further strengthening the BSA guilt. The mass has also helped create a mini Atttorneys industry that follows the BSA.

“Until the fall of 2020, sexual abuse at Boy Scout had become the new mesothelioma,” the author writes, “reflecting the previous efforts of the high profile lawsuit for exposure of asbestos, killers of weeds, medicines with recipe, talcum powder and hernia implants of the network.

Calling centers connected potential clients with lawyers ready to represent them in emergency and taking a 40% heavy solution.

Plaintiffs were asked to write to the judges who would determine the salary. They were letters from hell – “a summary of the heart attack and human ruins scattered across generations and all fifty states,” the author writes.

With the membership of decomposed scouting, his reputation crashed and the millions of dollars still need to be paid, the author raises some difficult questions while scouting faces an unsafe future. True, background checks have improved a lot and iconic swing guides now contain chapters aimed at preventing inappropriate contact between adults and children. But with “heart stroke and human ruins scattered across generations and all 50 states – the question is not just ‘can the boy’s scouts survive?’ But ‘do you need?’ “