As previous posts have noted, the Boy Scouts of America seemed to have learned from the Vatican game plan for gays: slander and denigrate normal, well adjusted gays and drive them from the membership ranks while protecting and shuffling around sexual predators preying on unsuspecting children and youths. And of course during all of this bull shit, the BSA claimed that they were merely supporting Christian values.The dishonesty, not to mention the moral bankruptcy is beyond stunning. Now, the Los Angeles Times which dropped the bombshell of the BSA's dishonesty and pattern of protecting child rapists is going to release information from its investigative report. One can only hope that the truth takes down many in the leadership of the BSA. Here are highlights from the Washington Post:
The Los Angeles Times is set to make available online Thursday an exhaustive compilation of alleged sex offenders who have been investigated by the Boy Scouts of America over the past several decades. The files include reports listing the names of suspect employees and volunteers — some from the Washington region — whom the organization often failed to report to law enforcement authorities.
The newspaper said it would release at 2:30 p.m. Eastern about 1,200 files dating from 1965 to 1985 that were ordered public by the Oregon Supreme Court. The release marks the first opportunity for people to comb through a vast number of alleged sex-crime reports filed internally with the Boy Scouts. The names of alleged victims will be redacted.
The Times has reported extensively for the past several months on Boy Scout sex abuse cases, featuring interviews with victims and alleged perpetrators, and has already released several reports from what the Boy Scouts dubbed the “Perversion Files.”
The paper based much of its reporting on confidential files and other records from 5,000 cases dating to the 1940s. No criminal charges were filed in many of the cases. The Times said many of the allegations of wrongdoing were never reported to police.
More on this story from The Associated Press:
The court-ordered release of the files has prompted the Boy Scouts to pledge that they will go back into the files and report any offenders who may have not been reported to the police when alleged abuse took place.
That could prompt a new round of criminal prosecutions for offenders who have so far escaped justice.
The Scouts have, until now, argued they did all they could to prevent sex abuse within their ranks by spending a century tracking pedophiles and using those records to keep known sex offenders out of their organization.
Obviously, if new criminal prosecutions take place, they need to include charges against those who deliberately failed to report and/or covered up crimes against children and youths.
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