Oh my God. The Boy Scouts of America, one of the most holier-than-thou homophobic bigoted organizations in America hid a pedophile from the cops, who then went and kept molesting more and more children over a decade. Yes, these are the people who kick out gay scouts and gay scoutmasters because they call us immoral. People who helped a pedophile escape and rape more children. These are the people Americans have been entrusting their children to for over half a century.
Boy Scouts of America officials didn't call police in 1979 after Turley acknowledged molesting three Orange County boys, records show.Yeah, who would want to call the cops after some man admits to raping and/or molesting three kids? And it did happen again, and again, and again over a ten year period. And the kids the guy tried to molest afterwards, two of them were pre-teen, suggesting that others might have been the same 12-and-under age. Nice. The guy was having sex with 12 year olds and under and the Boy Scouts didn't think that was a cop-calling offense.
"You do not want to broadcast to the entire population that these things happen," A. Buford Hill Jr., a former Orange County Scouting executive, said of officials' decision not to contact authorities. "You take care of it quietly and make sure it never happens again."
It's time for a lot of American parents to have a chat with their children about just what did or didn't happen during their time with the Boy Scouts.
Oh, but it gets worse. More from AP:
Turley is one of more than 5,000 suspected child molesters named in confidential documents kept by the Boy Scouts of America. The records – called the "perversion files" by the Scouts – include admissions of guilt as well as unproven allegations.How many of those 5,000 suspected molesters did the Boy Scouts turn in to the police? Any?
What a bunch of pigs. The Boy Scouts have been running around for years with their high and mighty "we're better than the immoral gays" attitude, and all the while they're protecting admitted child molesters, who then go on to molest even more children. I'm speechless. I know I shouldn't be surprised, but I still am. I can't believe anyone would let a guy get away with molesting a child, knowing damn well that he's likely to do it again. How could the Boy Scouts do this? It sounds like their top priority was, like the Catholic church, protecting themselves, not the children in their care.
And now, according to the article, the Boy Scouts are still refusing to come clean on what they know. Why do people have to sue the Boy Scouts in order to find out what the Boy Scouts know about potential pedophiles in their midst? Would you send your child to be taken care of by someone who is fighting in court to protect the names of potential pedophiles?
Shouldn't the Boy Scouts be fighting in court to protect their own boys?
If I had a kid in the Scouts, I'd get them out right now. Then have a long uncomfortable talk with your child about whether anyone touched them inappropriately.
Absolutely disgusting.
