UNITED STATES
CNN
(CNN) — A sex abuse support group called on the Boy Scouts of America to oust any official still with the organization who was involved in covering up child sex crimes.
The demand by the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests was in reaction to a Los Angeles Times story detailing previously sealed files that it said showed scouting officials “failed to report hundreds of alleged child molesters to police and often hid the allegations from parents and the public.”
The 1,600 “ineligible volunteer” files from 1970 to 1991 reviewed by the Times were obtained through a 1992 lawsuit against the Boy Scouts, the newspaper reported Sunday. The “perversion files” were a blacklist of alleged sexual molesters, it said.
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