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These Men Say the Boy Scouts Sex Abuse Problem Is Worse Than Anyone Knew
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Time
Posted: June 23rd, 2019
https://time.com/longform/boy-scouts-sex-abuse/
Fifty-eight years ago, Edward Pittson says, the Scoutmaster who had taught him skills like how to use a compass and light a campfire said he was going to teach Pittson about sex. The Scoutmaster invited Pittson, who was 12, to his house and asked him to lie on the bed. This is the normal way to learn about sex, Pittson recalls the Scoutmaster telling him. He said, But dont tell your parents what Im doing. Now, Pittson is one of hundreds of men and boys hoping for a last chance at restitution if the Boy Scouts of America, in the face of a new wave of abuse allegations, files for bankruptcy. On Thursday, a group of attorneys said theyd collected information from at least 428 men and boys whose accounts of rape, molestation and abuse indicate the Boy Scouts pedophile problem is far more widespread than the organization has previously acknowledged. If the Boy Scouts file for bankruptcy, the accusers will have a limited window to file claims against the organization. Hundreds of individual sex abuse cases have been brought against the Scouts ... and in 2010, a judge ordered the organization to make public an internal list of men accused of preying on boys. Within Scout headquarters, the list was known as the P Files or Perversion Files. In January, a child abuse expert hired by the Boy Scouts to analyze the files testified that she found 12,254 boys had reported experiencing sexual abuse at the hands of at least 7,800 suspected assailants between 1944 and 2016.
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