“In the civil suit filed last month in Portland, Ore., six plaintiffs alleged that the Boy Scouts of America allowed convicted child sex-offender Timur Dykes to continue to participate and lead troop activities, including sleepovers at his home with the scouts, even after he confessed in 1983 to having abused as many as 17 scouts.”
I don’t remember sleep overs when I was in scouting. I was in cub scouts, in which the den was led by a woman and then in webelos (sp?) which the group was lead by a most honorable man. I remember group activities but seems sleep-overs even then would have been a red flag. And for the scouts to know about the guy, very bad.
We had two, sort of. They were planned real camping trips, but weather for one and forest fire at another location prevented either from happening but at home weather was fine.
One of them my patrol pitched pitched camp in my parent's back field. The other the entire troop pitched camp in the school playground.
But I'm not really sure if I would count those as "sleepovers".