You don’t send your 12 year old son off into a tent in the woods with a 23 year old homosexual. It just isn’t done.
This is the end of Boy Scouting as we knew it for a century.
Ya that’s right. It’s not boys scouts, it’s victim scouting.
Fortunately for the scouts, your situation is not allowed unless the two are father and son.
The scouts have followed a no scout alone with a leader rule for years now, to avoid the situation that can occur.
Of course this rule does not stop a determined pedophile. He can easily be put in a situation of taking a boy home for example.
I agree that the scouts are one place where young boys are vulnerable and can be victimized, but church, school, and many clubs are also places where this happens. In each case I believe the no adult along with a kid rule is being applied but as I indicated this is not full proof.