Court: Boy Scouts Must Release Abuse Files

Townhall.com ^ | Thursday, July 27, 2006 | unknown

[bert]

.....This Phelps fellow would have been a scoutmaster at 18...that's pretty unusual......

He likely bacame a registered adult Scouter at 18. He would have held Assistant positions for quite a while. That is he merely reregistered as an adult on turning 18.

[lepton]

...About 1,000 files, with names redacted...and the alleged perpetrators were removed... Yeah. Better protect the perverts!

Not to mention the victims of false accusations and wild speculation, as well as those who provided actual evidence under agreements of anonymity.

[LRS]

Yes, I must admit that my disgust for predators over rode my common sense. There are probably innocent people in those files as well. And, the BSA are in a tough position on this: damned if they do, and damned if they don't. Either way, a law suit is going to happen.

But, BTW, one thing I will not back up on: BSA should have the right to discriminate against gay scoutmasters. If anyone wants a Queer Scouts organization, let them create one.

[scripter]

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[rzeznikj at stout]

Not really, I became an ASM when I turned 18 (right before then, I was a JASM)

Unfortunately, I'm only nominally involved with my unit because of college...

[SandRat]

The left won't rest until Scouting is no more.

[RonF]

It wasn't the organization's job to prevent abuse. It was the job of the organizations sponsoring the units.

[RonF]

When someone wants to register as an adult leader with a Troop, Pack, Crew or Ship, the Committee Chair of the unit's committee and the Institutional Representative or the Institutional Head sign off on it stating that they believe the individual to be of good character and fit to serve. The IH is the head of the organization sponsoring the unit (Rector of the church, President of the PTA, etc.); the IR would be someone designated by the IH to represent the sponsoring institution to the unit and make sure the unit is acting in the sponsor's interests and is being run in accordance with the policies of both the sponsor and the BSA.

The BSA has no way to police the character and actions of whoever the sponsor decides to sign up. That's the sponsor's job. If allegations or offenses do surface, the BSA can and does ban that person from being registered with the BSA, but there's little that they can do before the fact; they are not there observing. A BSA unit belongs to the sponsor, it's not run directly by the BSA. I'd like to know what these folks think the BSA could have done about these situations.

[MarMema]

The left won't rest until Scouting is no more.

They'll never make it in their attempt to destroy Scouting, though, because the program is too awesome and instills too much loyalty.

My oldest went Life on Friday and is about to begin his last Eagle merit badge. Hope things are great with you.

[SandRat]

Things are going well just tired.

Congrats on your oldest making Life. The MBs go by fast the tough one is the Eagle Packet/Project.