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In reply to the discussion: Any former Boy Scouts here? [View all]

gladium et scutum

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3. Don't think pedophiles took over.
Tue Feb 18, 2020, 08:12 PM
Feb 2020

believed they were there all along, in small quantities. Some of these cases go back many decades. When an incident of abuse occurred, the National organization did not take public action to answer the abuse. They kept it under wraps to avoid embarrassing the organization. Think it was sort of like the child abuse issues in the Roman Catholic Church. Action was taken to protect the organization but not to protect the victims. Not a good decision for a church or a youth organization.

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