OR - Boy Scouts accused of hiding pedophiles

[Missizzy]

I guess the Oregon Supreme Court has finished its "weighing" of the subject. Great news indeed but what a smarmy bunch of nasty history!!

http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120614/NEWS07/206140330

Court says Scouts 'perversion files' public record
June 14, 2012

"The Oregon Supreme Court has approved the release of 20,000 pages of so-called perversion files compiled by the Boy Scouts of America on suspected child molesters within the organization for more than 20 years, giving the public its first chance to review the records. The files gathered from 1965 to 1985 came to light when they were used as evidence in a landmark Oregon lawsuit that ended in 2010 with a jury ruling that the Scouts had failed to protect a plaintiff who had been molested by an assistant scoutmaster..."

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"....The 20,000 pages at the center of the Oregon public records case — files kept on a total of 1,200 people — are part of a larger trove of confidential documents the Boy Scouts of America began compiling several decades ago on people flagged as being possible molesters. By 1935, a New York Times article that said the Scouts had 2,910 "cards" on men who were unfit to supervise young boys...."

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[Missizzy]

Another in-depth article about the release of files:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/06/boy_scout_sex_abuse_files_--_w.html

Boy Scout sex abuse files -- with names removed -- expected to be released within weeks
June 14, 2012

"An Oregon Supreme Court decision Thursday to release 20,000 pages of files about volunteers who molested Boy Scouts likely will have two effects: First, it will continue to embarrass the 102-year-old Boy Scouts of America, which has worked vigorously to distance itself from a dark chapter in its past.

Second -- because the files outline a widespread problem of child sex abuse and the organization's attempts to cover it up -- the ruling could open the floodgates of litigation. Attorneys of men who were abused as Scouts will have precisely the evidence they need to sue the Texas-based youth organization for many millions of dollars in punitive damages...."

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