"The accusers range in age from 8 to 93."
I was a boy scout and loved it. We had a great time and no perversion beyond lighting farts in tents with our pants on. This is a very sad situation. I call BS on the 93 year old.
I never heard about any perverts in the Boy Scouts until after I got married. When my wife was a little girl they had a scout meeting at their house. One of the scout leaders came up to her room and showed her his penis and wanted her to touch it. She was not traumatized but told her dad.
Her dad acted like it was no big deal, but he spread the word and the other fathers started asking their kids about the guy and found that he was a pervert who had been doing bad stuff with the boys. Some of the fathers set up an ambush and beat the living crap out of the guy; he was never seen again in the community and most people assumed that he was dead. That is how things like this used to be handled in our community... no police or lawyers necessary.
***That is how things like this used to be handled in our community... no police or lawyers necessary. ***
My sister-in-law told of a similar situation back in the 1940s. After the kids complained about a local “too friendly” man, some members of her dad’s club waylaid the local pervert and put him in the hospital. No cops, no lawyers. The pervert soon left town.