Charlotte pastor: Admitted Boy Scout molester worked at church daycare

CHARLOTTE (NC)
WBTV

By Chris Dyches

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) –
The pastor of a Charlotte church says that a man who admitted to molesting Boy Scouts in the 1970s worked at a church daycare for the past decade.

According to Pastor Rush Otey of Selywn Avenue Presbyterian Church, Thomas Menghi Junior worked at the church’s daycare starting in 2002.

During an interview with the Associated Press released on Thursday, Menghi admitted that he molested as many as 10 boys from Troop 786 in Fayetteville in the early 1970s.

Menghi was just one of thousands of former scout leaders named in secret files on suspected abusers kept by the Boy Scouts of America and released under a recent court order.

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