ILLINOIS
Herald-Whig
By DON O’BRIEN
Herald-Whig Staff Writer
Information about three cases concerning local Boy Scout leaders were among the 14,500 pages of secret “perversion files” released Thursday by order of the Oregon Supreme Court.
The Associated Press reported an array of local authorities — police chiefs, prosecutors, pastors and town Boy Scout leaders among them — quietly shielded scoutmasters and others who allegedly molested children. The files document sex abuse allegations across the country, from a small town in the Adirondacks to downtown Los Angeles, from 1959 to 1985.
The local cases involved a Memphis, Mo., minister in 1960, and incidents in the 1980s in both Quincy and Fort Madison, Iowa. …
º The Rev. Dean Jones, a pastor at Christian Church in Memphis, Mo., was accused of oral sodomy in June 1960, according to papers filed by The Great Rivers Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The Boys Scouts’ memo said Jones “failed to deny or admit (the charge) but immediately resigned his position in the church.”
Jones, 28 at the time, was the cubmaster for Pack 97 in Memphis. His file does not indicate if he was ever charged. The memo stated that “sufficient evidence has been collected to verify the major complaint.”
Click here to view documents related to the Jones case.
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