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'Perversion files' show locals helped cover up
On June 14, 2012, following a civil trial, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that decades of the Boy Scouts’ confidential files would be made public. They would first need to allow the Scouts and plaintiffs’ attorneys time to redact the files of sensitive information. Given a months-long head start, editor Terry Petty and reporter Nigel Duara began the process of negotiating the unredacted files from a longtime source. The negotiations took two months and required the guarantee of an embargo. In August, they received a CD with 20,000 pages of perversion files. Duara and Petty combed through the files, looking for patterns. The Scouts’ concealment of the abuse has been reported before, beginning with an exhaustive series in the early 1990s from the Washington Times. But the AP team found something else: Locals helped. County attorneys, newspaper editors, mayors and police officers were all detailed in the files helping keep the Scouts’ name out of charging documents and off the front page. Indeed, a local county attorney proudly reported to Scouts leaders that he quashed an investigation in which a man confessed to sexually abusing two brothers “to protect the name of Scouting.”
Tags: Boy scouts; abuse; record
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Decades of Dishonor
When the Boy Scout "perversion files" were released in October, we began reporting on a local sex offender accused of abuse in the 1980s. But it was just the tip of the iceberg, as we learned the man was a former teacher who had been dogged by abuse allegations for decades.
Tags: Boy Scout; sex offender; sexual abuse; teacher
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The Shame of the Boy Scouts
The Los Angeles Times made public for the first time thousands of files documenting sexual abuse of Boy Scouts by their troop leaders, resulting in reforms that will help ensure the protection of children.
Tags: sexual abuse; Boy Scouts
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Scout's Honor
The goal was to investigate the issue of sexual abuse inside Boy Scout organizations in both Canada and the United States by exploring one particular case that touched both sides of the border. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Los Angeles Times teamed up to investigate the case of Richard Turley while also looking at the scope of the wider problem in both countries and the impact on individuals affected.
Tags: Boy Scouts; Richard Turley; child abuse; sexual abuse
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Scout's Honor
An investigation of the issue of sexual abuse inside Boy Scouts organizations both in Canada and the United States. CBC News and The LA Times uncovered that nearly 80 Boy Scout leaders have been convicted of sex related crimes since the 1950s.
Tags: Sexual Abuse; Boy Scouts; CBC News; The Los Angeles Times; 1950s
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Scout's Honour
An investigation on sexual abuse inside Canadian and U.S. Boy Scout organizations, revealing close to 100 scout leaders convicted of sex related crimes since the 1950s and over 300 victims.
Tags: sex offenders; sexual abuse; children; minors; boy scouts; scout organization; jamboree; Canada; United States
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Scout's Honour
This investigation's goal was to look into the issue of sexual abuse inside Boy Scout organizations in both Canada and the US by exploring one particular case that touched both sides of the border. the CBC and LA Times teamed up for a 10-month record search which resulted in many findings.
Tags: Boy Scouts; CBC; LA Times; child abuse; broadcast
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Chainsaw Scouting
This series “examines the long-running logging and land use practices conducted by Boy Scouts of America groups across the nation for the past two decades”. Some of the major findings include: instead of preserving the land they often sold woodlands to make money, sold property given to them by donors, ruined habitats for a number of protected species, and used the revenue from these deals to compensate for lost funding.
Tags: non-profit; camps; profit; conservationists; children; Virgil McCroskey; forestry
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Scouts may be thrifty, but some leaders are well-paid
"While the Boy Scouts depend on volunteerism by adults to stretch funds and deliver most programs, top Scout executives are well paid. The top scouter in America received nearly $1 million in compensation in 2005."
Tags: boy scouts; nonprofit; finances; salaries; fundraising money
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Scouts' Honor
The 30,000-member Grand Teton Council of the Boy Scouts of America hired known pedophiles, hid the extent of their predation on scouts and did not tell the parents whose children were known by GTC staff to have been molested.
Tags: boy scouts; pedophile; molestation; Grand Teton Council