{"id":220896,"date":"2019-08-20T01:12:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T01:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/?p=220896"},"modified":"2019-08-20T01:13:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T01:13:36","slug":"the-boy-scouts-of-america-referred-120-sexual-abuse-allegations-to-the-police-and-this-is-only-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-t1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/the-boy-scouts-of-america-referred-120-sexual-abuse-allegations-to-the-police-and-this-is-only-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-t1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy Scouts Of America Referred 120 Sexual Abuse Allegations To The Police, And This Is Only The Tip Of The Iceberg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this month, the Boy Scouts of America<\/strong> has referred over 120 abuse allegations<\/strong> by their scout leaders to the police for further investigation. They said that they believe all their victims and that the organization is doing all they can to identify \u201cadditional alleged perpetrators.\u201d<\/p>\n

The organization came out with a statement after a lawsuit was filed in Pennsylvania that accused one of the scout leaders from that state of committing \u201cunspeakable acts of sexual abuse\u201d to one of the boy scouts on camping trips, and even during daytime excursions.<\/p>\n

The statement stated: “We care deeply about all victims of abuse and sincerely apologize to anyone who was harmed during their time in Scouting. We believe victims, we support them, we pay for counseling by a provider of their choice, and we encourage them to come forward.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The abuse included:\u00a0“hundreds of instances of fondling, hundreds of incidents of oral sexual assault and repeated attempts of anal penetration,”<\/strong> <\/em>according to the suit.<\/p>\n

“The Boy Scout Defendants’ conduct was an outrageous violation of societal norms and went so far beyond all possible bounds of decency so as to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community,” the suit says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The allegations were made by a man simply called S.D., who is now 57-years-old. The abuse started began “sometime in approximately 1974 or 1975 and continuing until approximately 1979 or 1980.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0He added in the suit that the assistant scoutmaster “actively groomed young boys under his charge for later sexual molestation.”<\/strong><\/em> S.D. said that he would be given drugs and alcohol before the abuse and different acts of sodomy would take place.<\/p>\n