NORTH CAROLINA
Associated Press
By By MICHAEL BIESECKER and MITCH WEISS, Associated Press
MONROE, N.C. (AP) — Former scoutmaster Thomas J. Menghi Jr. says he was usually drunk when he molested numerous Boy Scouts during the early 1970s.
He was in his late 20s, living in a Fayetteville motel and working as Tupperware deliveryman. He invited boys from Troop 786 as young as 11 years old to ride with him along his route, requesting that they spend the night in his room so they could get an early start.
“Yes, I abused kids,” Menghi, now 69, said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. “But just how many and other details I can’t remember. It was a long time ago and I was in a fog.”
Menghi’s file is just one among 14,500 pages of “perversion files” compiled by the Boy Scouts of America between 1959 to 1985 and made public last week by court order.
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