Boy Scouts to report pedophiles missed previously

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Oct 1, 3:28 AM EDT

Boy Scouts to report pedophiles missed previously

By TERRENCE PETTY and NIGEL DUARA
Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America plan to begin doing what critics argue they should have done decades ago - bring suspected abusers named in the organization's so-called perversion files to the attention of police departments and sheriff's offices across the country.

The Scouts have, until now, argued they did all they could to prevent sex abuse within their ranks by spending a century tracking pedophiles and using those records to keep known sex offenders out of their organization. But a court-ordered release of the perversion files from 1965 to 1985, expected sometime in October, has prompted Scouts spokesman Deron Smith to say the organization will go back into the files and report any offenders who may have fallen through the cracks.

Smith said Mike Johnson, the group's youth protection director and a former police detective, will lead the review.

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Notice: not a thought to anything but the organization. First, you say nothing at all, in hopes of keeping even a hint of pedophilia away from the name of the organization. Then, when you are caught in the coverup, you say you did everything you could to keep pedophiles away from YOUR organization.

What about keeping pedophiles you identified in your organization away from kids, period?

I once had a discussion with a member of a residential religious community about someone accused of pedophilia. The reply was that it was a closed case. The organization had sent him to another country.

When I asked if that other country had no children, all I got was silence. It's always the organization first, and then, if we are very lucky, the children within the organizaton are a distant second many years later. Children outside the organization are not even on the radar screen.

and, of course, if we are not very lucky, the children within the organization are not even a belated and distant second. Maybe they are even accused of being the "real" seducers.

Ugh.