The Boy Scouts will not disappear. Nineteen Catholic dioceses have filed for bankruptcy and are still standing
was 11 years old when the abuse began in the 1960s. John Brown, his scoutmaster, a supposedly upstanding man in his small upstate New York town, molested him regularly. While looking up at the constellations to earn merit badges, Mr Morse remembers, “he’d come up behind you in the dark, pressing himself up against you in a field. You’re standing in pitch black with this humongous man taking hold of you.
Mr Morse kept the torment to himself, but is convinced that scout leaders suspected. The emotional scars were long-lasting. The former honours student dropped out of school, became an alcoholic and lost a marriage. Mr Brown was eventually arrested two decades later for abusing another boy. Last year Mr Morse filed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America under New York’s new Child Victims Act. This law changed the statute of limitations for prosecuting and filing civil suits against abusers and their affiliated institutions. It also included a one-year window during which victims can seek damages, no matter when the abuse occurred. More than a dozen states passed similar laws.
The Boy Scouts are not disappearing. Nineteen Catholic dioceses have filed for bankruptcy and are still standing. But like them theThe current leaders seem sincere in wanting to help. In an open letter to victims Jim Turley, the national chairman, apologised, saying “We believe you, we believe in compensating you.” Last week the Scouts announced a partnership with 1in6, a non-profit that helps victims of sexual abuse.
But the organisation has known about abuse going back nearly a century, even creating an internal secret file called “P” , to track leaders and volunteers accused of child sexual abuse. In 1935 the then head of thethat almost 1,000 men had been removed from Scouting because they “sometimes give way to temptation”.to put money for victims into a shared pot so that everyone receives compensation, according to Marie Reilly, a law professor at Pennsylvania State University.
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