MASSACHUSETTS
Lowell Sun
By Lisa Redmond, lredmond@lowellsun.comlowellsun.com
Posted: 10/20/2012
BOSTON — One of the 45 Massachusetts residents listed in the Boy Scouts’ newly released “perversion files” is a former Pepperell resident and Level 3 sex offender who is in prison serving time for his fourth child sex-assault conviction.
Due to an Oregon Supreme Court ruling, the Boy Scouts of America on Thursday released a list of 1,250 “ineligible volunteers” from across the country who were accused of child molestation as far back as 1965. …
On the published list is Donn Kruger, of Pepperell, who was listed as an “ineligible volunteer” in 1983. Also listed as ineligible volunteers are Normand R. Harnois, of Lowell (1989); Steven A. Conti, of Burlington (1988); Alden R. Farrar, of Ayer, (1978); and the Rev. Walter N. Stone, of Fitchburg (1989). …
According to published reports from 1989, Stone was a Congregational minister in Fitchburg when he was charged with rape and sexual abuse involving children in his parish and in
In a July 28, 1978 letter from George Fraquair, Scout executive of the Nashua Valley BSA Council, to the BSA Registration Service, Fraquair asked that Alden R. Farrar, of Ayer, be “placed on the confidential list. He has admitted to a morals offense against one of our scouts. The family, including the scout, fortunately have decided not to prosecute.”
Stone, of the Rollstone Congregational Church in Fitchburg, was sentenced to seven to 15 years in state prison after being convicted of eight counts of indecent assault and battery on a child. Two victims testified that Stone befriended them during church counseling and activities.
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