Man Sues Scoutmaster Who Allegedly Molested and Raped Him As a Boy Multiple Times

By Jasmine Stole Weiss
Pacific Daily News
June 14, 2018

https://www.guampdn.com/story/news/2018/06/14/e-g-w-sues-boy-scouts-america-alleged-1970-molestation/700770002/

A man identified only as E.G.W. in federal court documents filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Boy Scouts of America and his former assistant scoutmaster, seeking $5 million in damages.

The man alleges his then-scoutmaster raped and molested him when he was an adolescent in the 1970s, according to the lawsuit.

The suit states E.G.W is now 59 years old and lives in California. He lived on Guam from about 1970 to 1972.

Allegedly raped, molested boy in 1971

While on Guam, E.G.W was a student at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic School, an altar boy for the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Agat and a member of the Naval Station Boy Scout Troop 32. David Joseph Ellington was member of the U.S. Coast Guard and assistant scoutmaster for the troop E.G.W. was part of, documents state.

The lawsuit states Ellington offered E.G.W. help to build a rocket model to earn a merit badge. E.G.W.’s parents trusted Ellington because of his status as a Coast Guard member, assistant scoutmaster and church volunteer and they allowed E.G.W. to go to Ellington’s residence, according to the suit.

It was at Ellington’s house in 1971, when E.G.W. was 12 years old, that Ellington raped and molested E.G.W. on various occasions, the suit states.

Sexual contact with officer's children

Ellington molested others before he molested E.G.W. and the Boy Scouts of America should’ve known he was a predator, documents state.

A letter from Roger Pelz, scout executive for Boy Scouts of America Chamorro Council, dated Dec. 21, 1971, states Ellington was discharged from the Coast Guard in 1971 for “character and behaviour disorder” because Ellington had sexual contact with the Coast Guard ship commanding officer’s two underage male children.