UNITED STATES
The Olympian
Editorial
While the Boy Scouts of America was spending time and resources to justify its exclusion of gays, it appears the organization has been ignoring a much bigger and more serious problem.
In a news story last week, it was revealed that “men suspected of molestation allegedly continued to abuse Scouts, despite a blacklist meant to protect boys from sexual predators,” according to internal BSA documents reviewed and reported by the Los Angeles Times.
Describing an indefensible scenario not unlike the child abuse scandal that rocked the Roman Catholic Church, the Times said the documents showed suspected sexual predators stayed within the Boy Scouts even after BSA officials were informed of the allegations.
Just as some abusing Catholic priests moved from parish to parish, these predators apparently
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