Scouts' sex-abuse files are evidence

[question everything]

Scouts' sex-abuse files are evidence

July 28, 2006

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Decades of files the Boy Scouts of America compiled on sexual-abuse allegations can be used in a lawsuit that claims the organization was ineffective at preventing abuse, the Washington Supreme Court ruled yesterday.

About 1,000 files, with names redacted, have been given to the lawyers for three men who say their scoutmaster abused them from 1971 to 1983 when they were Boy Scouts. The files are sealed by court order, but could be made public at trial, plaintiff's attorney Tim Kosnoff said. The files include court records, news accounts, rumors and tips from parents and others. Names of accusers, their parents and the alleged perpetrators were removed.

Associated Press

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060728/news_1n28region.html

[tularetom]

1. Gee ya mean the "boy scouts" who were so uptight

about gays getting in, covered up evidence of multiple incidents of pedophilia in thier ranks? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. When I was a kid anybody who joined the "boy scouts" was suspected of and ridiculed for, having "gay" leanings. We were stupid kids and I'm not sure at age 12 or so we even knew WTF we were talking about but I still find it ironic that the organization seems to be in such a state of De Nile.

[daleo]

2. When I was a boy, we had a healthy suspicion of the Scouts

Not necessarily on sexual grounds, but we thought any group that adults invented was best to be avoided. Maybe our instincts were good.

[onager]

3. They also reject atheists

We're too immoral.

:rofl:

[Bullshot]

4. This week a Boys Scout rep kicked off our United Way campaign

by telling how an experience with the BSA is a guarantee that you will develop into a model citizen.

When I was growing up the Boys Scouts ended up being some of the biggest drains on society--alcoholics, spouse abusers, etc. I consider myself as self-reliant and can do many of the things they teach you in the Scouts, and I didn't belong to the BSA.

I've had a problem with their recent homophobic and "Christian" issues and didn't push my sones into a membership.

The BSA rep bragged that 31% of the U.S. Air Force and 34% of the U.S. Army is made up of former Boys Scouts. Right away, I thought that it also means that 69% of the Air Force and 66% of the Army is not former Boys Scouts.

One of my co-workers is a former Boys Scout and recently served in the Army. He's 34, still lives with his mommy and daddy and is extremely weird.

So, what does this all mean?

The Boys Scouts is a good organization, but it's no different than anything else. It's no ticket to greatness. You become what you become. It has more to do with parental upbringing and your inner drive than it has to do with a boys' organization teaching you to build a fire or filet a fish.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. I'm wary of any man that was an Eagle Scout

lots of boys join the scouts for a year or two when they are little, and then they grow up. The ones who are still in during high school always seemed a little 'off' to me.