UNITED STATES
Chicago Tribune
[with video]
Chris Francescani and Teresa Carson
Reuters
3:06 p.m. CDT, October 18, 2012
NEW YORK/PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) – A popular Colorado Boy Scout leader named Floyd Slusher allegedly had a strategy when it came to molesting boys: He first plied his victims with alcohol, then abused them and threatened to kill anyone who talked.
On one occasion in 1976, according to police, Slusher told a Scout as he undressed the child that “what I’m going to do now, if I get arrested, after I get out of jail, I’ll come after you and your family.”…
But in scores of other cases, local Boy Scout leaders urged accused and admitted pedophiles to quietly resign without notifying authorities, or allowed them to return to scouting after being treated by doctors or clergy.
In one case, the files show that after a volunteer in Texas was expelled when he confessed to molesting Scouts in 1965, a local Scouting official wrote to the national office and said a minister that knew the man “is doing his best to protect Boy Scouting and trying to keep this incident as quiet as possible.
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