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Daily Mail (United Kingdom)
[Boy Scouts helped alleged molesters cover tracks, files show – Los Angeles Times]
Boy Scouts of America covered up HUNDREDS of child sex abuse cases and let molesters slip away, according to secret ‘perversion files’
By Snejana Farberov
Over the course of about two decades, the Boys Scouts of America (BSA) has failed to report hundreds of cases of child sex abuse involving counselors and officials, according to the organization’s confidential internal files.
An explosive expose by the Los Angels Times based on 1,600 documents dating from 1971 to 1991 has revealed that Boy Scout officials would often urge admitted molesters to quietly resign and then hide the allegations from the victims’ parents.
Volunteers and employees linked to possible abuse were allowed to leave the organization citing such far-fetched excuses as ‘chronic brain dysfunction’ and duties at the Shakespeare festival. …
The records show that the teenage victim was counseled ‘with positive results’ by the Rev. Edmond C. Micarelli, the camp’s Catholic chaplain, who later ended up in the ‘perversion files’ himself after a man told officials that he and his bother were raped by the cleric as young boys.
In 2002, the Diocese of Providence paid $13.5million to 36 victims who sued Micarelli and 10 other priests over sexual abuse going back to at least 1975.
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