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Abuse of the Boy Scouts

Thousands of boys spend time with camp leaders, learning survival tricks that often apply to life away from the campsite as much as in it. Having never been in the Scouts, I may not be the best one to describe the benefits of entrusting a stranger with a group of boys out in the wilderness for any given amount of time. Of course, there is very little that anyone could do to make my over protective mind less convinced that the entire concept is filled with faulty judgements... I'm not insulting those that support either the boy or girl scouts- I just believe that as parents, it's OUR job t teach our own children, rather than sending them off to be taught life lessons by someone else. Because, sometimes the lessons learned- aren't what we expected, or wanted.
This happens to be the case of the young men put into the care of the former scoutmaster, Bruce Phelps. He has admitted to sexually abusing a number of young boys that were in his charge. OF course, he only admitted this as a deal in part of a lawsuit filed against the Boy Scouts of American, and Phelps himself. And truth be told, his actions have really cost him little, as the time frame between the sexual abuse and his admitting to it, surpassed the laws on limitations.
Despite the fact that Phelps will not be held accountable- and don't tell me how he was sued and therefore was held accountable, cause it only counts if he at least gets jail time, and he won't- there is hope that files containing more information regarding sexual abuse within the Boy Scouts may help in bringing justice to others.
Decades of files that the Boy Scouts of America compiled on sexual abuse allegations can be used in a lawsuit claiming the organization was ineffective at preventing abuse, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

About 1,000 files, with names redacted, have been given to the lawyers for three men who say their scoutmaster abused them from 1971 to 1983 when they were Boy Scouts. The files are sealed by court order for now but could be made public at trial, plaintiff's attorney Tim Kosnoff said. -SOURCE

The Boy Scouts now claims that it teaches boys how to resist abuse, and report it. Leaving me to wonder, what if the person assigned to teaching this course, is the would be abuser? Something tells me that there are still some holes left open in this story.

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