Boy Scouts of America files for bankruptcy after sex abuse lawsuits

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  1. sec

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    https://www.foxnews.com/us/boy-scouts-of-america-files-for-bankkruptcy-after-sex-abuse-lawsuits

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    The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early Tuesday after decades of sexual abuse claims within one of the country's largest youth organizations.

    The petition, filed in Delaware bankruptcy court, halts the hundreds of lawsuits the BSA is facing that allege sexual misconduct by people within the 110-year-old organization over the years.


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    comment: What a shame. Some decent skills were taught to Boy Scouts as well as they use to teach life lessons. Now, thanks to homosexual pedophiles, who viewed the BSA as their buffet table of little boys, the organization will no doubt, never recover.

    It's painfully obvious that proper screening wasn't conducted to weed out homosexual pedophiles. It is sad to see this has happened
     
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    My Dad was a Leader for many years way back when, believe he himself was an Eagle Scout if I recall correctly.

    What an absolute shame it's come down to this.... a worthwhile organization used as a source for pedophiles....
     
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    They need to contact the Catholic Church for help with damage control.
     
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    Sadly, IMO, political correctness makes it darn near impossible to profile and screen without someone yelling "homophobia"

    The result, little boys preyed upon by homosexual perverts.
     
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    Man how terrible! These .damned homosexual pedophiles have destroyed a wonderful organization. Being a scout was the best thing to happen to me growing up. Thankfully we didnt have these sick bastards in the troops I knew. I never knew these people existed until I was an adult

    As scouts we were taught to be moral and a homo pedophile would be busted out fast in the troops I associated with.
     
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    Why do you fell all of these self-identified heterosexual men keep abusing these boys?
    What should we do to stop it?

    Think banning all men who identify as heterosexual would help?
     
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    Wrong. It was the policy of the boy scouts to NOT report pedophiles to the police. It was from an ingrained, age-old culture that shut people up to keep the sex crimes under a hat.
     
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    I was a scout. Made it to Star but then lost interest.

    Looking back now I see it for what it was: A religious para-military organization. We were being prepared to fight another WWII. Hell, we even used C rations.

    It was a mostly good experience. But it was part of a the larger theme of religious and military brainwashing that I grew to resent.
     
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    You realize that the vast majority of the cases were prior to the ban on gay scouts and then gay troop leaders, right?

    It was literally going on during the period you are calling it a “wonderful organization”.
    Who cares is little billy is being raped by the father of two other scouts — as long as those damned homosexuals couldn’t join!

    Some people have such warped priorities. Most terrifying, they can vote!
     
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    Yeah!

    Why can't these darn homosexuality pedophiles just stick to having sex with little girls like God intended!?
     
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    No, I don't know that it is right. If the "vast majority" occurred in the past why didn't the lawsuits that are bringing down the organization occur at the same time? I can't imagine angry parents waiting for a future lawsuit. Your premise is illogical from my view.
     
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    Your comment isn't relevant to the topic. The topic is about little boys who were molested by grown men, aka homosexual pedophilia

    Are you trying to imply that heterosexual pedophilia is acceptable?

    Both are reprehensible, and the BSA apparently didn't do enough to screen out homosexual molesters.

    Would you think it appropriate for a 40 year old heterosexual man to go alone on a camp out with a bunch of 8-13 year old girls? If no, then why is it appropriate for a 40 year old man who likes gay sex to go alone on camp outs with 8-13 year old boys? Clearly, given the situation, it was the wrong thing as we can see by the homosexual molestation.
     
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    I remember when I was about 14, my dad having the incredibly awkward conversation with me trying to find out if anything bad had happened to me at scouts. Apparently one or more of the kids (who I only ever witnessed as bullies) were propositioning other kids for sex while on scout outings. Kids and parents were complaining that this shouldn't be going on, but it was decided that we shouldn't discriminate against the kids who wanted to use boy scouts as their 'grinder' of the day (this was the 1990s) and also one of the boys doing it was the vice-scoutmasters kid. So they stayed in the troop, and most of the troop quit scouts.

    Which was for the best for me. I instead joined a nonprofit that took underpriveledged youth (usually in legal trouble) kids camping and backpacking as a sort of 'get-out-of-juvy' therapy, which not only taught me far more about the outdoors than scouts ever did, but was a lot more rewarding.
     
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    This is an area where I find it impossible to actually understand the liberal narrative or motivations. So, ostensibly, liberals are tolerant of aberrant behavior, but their lawyers use the identification of those behaviors to make money in court. The irony..

    Then, liberals don't like organizations that actually teach folks to be independent or successful, unless it's one of their incubation labs, like (well name any liberal university of record) so competing organizations that actually compete with their labs are then targets of opportunity to be raided for their wealth or their viability in an effort to artificially reduce their competition in the public arena. It's like watching the machinations of liberals declaring their support for folks like Woody Allen or that creep who is in exile in France (Roman Polanski)... and then take others like Harvey Weinstein to the dockets.. all the while supporting some would be pedophiles and creeps and using the court system to ferret out others who don't belong to their covens..

    I wasn't ever involved in scouting, but I know many folks over the years who found their mojo there, and it served them well. It also instilled a pretty stout moral compass, and of course that, to liberals, in anathema to their feelz and frightens them when confronted with someone with actual moral courage. As it is ever the battle over the inducement of personal entitlement at the cost of morality, liberals then are intolerant of those institutions that compete against their message of moral ambiguity and tolerance for those who actually do accost, or otherwise predate on the innocent that they also viciously protect.
     
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    You “know” wrong then.
    Most of the cases were prior to 2000
    https://abusedinscouting.com/list-of-confirmed-bsa-abusers/
     
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    What do you feel would be a good preventative measure to stop these self identified heterosexual males (typically married and a parent of a scout) from molesting boys outside of what programs the BSA has already implemented?
     
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    Probably because rudimentary rationalism demonstrates the emptiness of such propositions that would place socially conservative political correctness over real concerns.
     
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    The majority of the scout leaders who abused boys were heterosexual.
     
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    again, it was homosexual pedophilia, not heterosexual. male-on-male sex with a minor
     
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    homosexual-sex with little boys is homosexual pedophilia. There is nothing heterosexual about it and your spin really draws one to question if you think it was ok for these men to engage in gay sex with little boys? Is nothing sacred? Should we not protect little boys and little girls from gay pedophilia?
     
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    Lol! The obsession with "gay pedophilia" is so amazing!

    Pedophilia is pedophilia! Predators over young children are much a crime of opportunity, not just often rather than a strict preference to the sex of the child! For a some predators, either sex will do even if they have a preference.

    Besides, child predators are quite often pillars of the community, with wife, children, good churches, jobs, and all the rest!

    What is more disgusting to me is that, just like the Catholics and the other wealthy congregations, the Boys Scouts are busy lawsuit-proofing their billions of dollars of assets rather than making an effort to trying to help the victims whose lives were damaged and lost their help and health.
     
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    Your attempt to link homosexuality and pedophilia seems unwarranted. Strictly speaking, a man who has sex with adult women and little boys is bisexual, and that is the type of person we're primarily talking about. But still, that doesn't mean bisexuals in general are a threat. The relevant part is the pedophilia.

    How would you suggest they could have prevented the abuse? I don't think asking them if they're a pedophile would work.
     
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    Yes, What do you feel would be a good preventative measure to stop these self identified heterosexual males (typically married and a parent of a scout) from molesting boys outside of what programs the BSA has already implemented?
     
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    this has been repeatedly proven false. the majority of scout leaders who abused boys are heterosexual.
     
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    I think this is one of the saddest things to happen. Scouting has been a good, wholesome experience in so many children's lives. My belief is that it has been brought down, not by a huge amount of pedophiles, but by the left who wants nowhere for boys to be boys without girls infiltrating, and also by bloodsucking lawyers who put ad after ad on TV encouraging people to go after the boy scouts and say they were molested 40 years ago when there wouldn't be a shred of evidence now EVEN IF IT ACTUALLY DID HAPPEN. Of course they could get a big settlement and the lawyer gets half!
     

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