UNITED STATES
Las Vegas Review-Journal
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted: Sep. 17, 2012
LOS ANGELES – The Boy Scouts of America failed to report hundreds of suspected child sex abusers to authorities and often helped cover up the accusations over two decades, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.
In a review of 1,600 of the organization’s confidential “perversion” files dating from 1970 to 1991, the newspaper found that Scout leaders helped suspected molesters push the allegations under the rug in about 400 instances.
The Scouts have fought to keep the files confidential, but they emerged as part of a lawsuit against the organization, the Times said.
The files date to 1919 and were kept as a type of “blacklist” of people unfit to serve in the organization.
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