Criminal
May 25, 2013
Objections to Boy Scout file release are unfounded
The documents cover the period from 1965 to 1985 and detail accusations against 1,247 scout leaders involving 1,622 child victims. By Thomas A. Cifarelli and Myles Couch
In October 2012, the Oregon Supreme Court ordered the Boy Scouts of America to release thousands of pages of internal documents that have been referred to as the "perversion files," siding with plaintiffs who argued that "lifting the veil of secrecy on child sexual abuse is the primary method by which the child sexual abuse problem in our society will be reduced, minimized, or hopefully eradicated." The o...
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