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“Are there any reports of gay scout leaders dispensing their agenda to the scouts?”

I don’t even want to do an extensive search after a simple search brought up these...

On February 13, 2003, a former Wisconsin Boy Scout leader was convicted of 20 counts of child sexual abuse and sentenced to 65 years in jail.

The judge said he wanted Gary Radloff to die behind bars for his crimes against children. Judge Patrick Haughney told Radloff: “Absent a serial killer, this case doesn’t get any more serious because what we have here is a serial child molester. Mr. Radloff is evil. Mr Raloff is vile. He is a child molester who ran a house of evil. I intend this to be a life sentence.”

Radloff had been convicted of child molestation in Illinois in the 1980s as a Boy Scout leader, but served only two years. He moved to Wisconsin and was charged last year with molesting three boys in his Scout troop.
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Monticello - For 15 years, Ronald Occhipinti was a Boy Scout troop leader in Queens.

But instead of guiding the boys in his charge, Occhipinti sexually abused at least one of them. The victim was 11 when the abuse started in Queens and in Sullivan County.
“You shouldn’t have done it. It ruined our lives,” cried one of several boys from the back row of a Medina, Ohio, courtroom last week.

The New York Police Department’s Special Victims Unit arrested Occhipinti in August. He admitted molesting two boys in his Scout troop, one at his home and one at a Little Neck church where the troop met.

Occhipinti pleaded guilty yesterday to first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child, second-degree aggravated sexual abuse and use of a child in a sexual performance, all felonies. Last week, he pleaded guilty in Queens to sexual-conduct felonies. He will get 20 years in prison when he’s sentenced on June 12 in Queens and June 13 in Sullivan.
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Michael Maggy, 35, a former Boy Scout leader, had just pleaded guilty to rape and sexual battery, and the poignant comments from his victims were brought home by a sentence of life in prison issued by Medina County Common Pleas Judge Christopher J. Collier.

“I know what I have done to you,” Maggy said to his scout victims, as reported in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “I can’t apologize enough.” Confessing that he too had been sexually molested as a boy, Maggy said he had lacked the courage to seek help.

“I did not get counseling or even talk about it. Look where it got me,”
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Justice Ignazio Ruvolo of the First District Court of Appeals in San Francisco recently ruled that the Boy Scouts of America should be held responsible for a Southern California scout’s sexual molestation at the hands of a pedophile scout leader. Why? In making his case that the Scouting organization — despite a comprehensive national program to prevent sexual abuse — should have done even more to protect kids from pedophiles, the judge said, “It should be reasonably foreseeable to the Scouts that a child participating in Scouting might fall prey to a sexual predator.”

Attorney Charles A. Bonner, representing the victim who had been molested back in 1991 by his assistant scoutmaster, Jorge Paz, was even more direct. He said BSA national leaders know that “the organization attracts pedophiles like a magnet attracts metal.”
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Despite the BSA training and rules, the incidents of reported child molestation have been on the rise. The scouting organization attributes the increase to greater awareness because of the training given to boys and to a record number of boys in the program — about 5 million. BSA statistics and various media reports over the past 20 years show a near-tripling of sexual abuse cases — from about 70 cases a year then to about 200 annually now.
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# FBI waiting when alleged sex offender shows up (March 9, 2001, Atlanta Constitution) When Robert Landrum Shirley walked into a video arcade in Roswell Saturday afternoon (March 3) he was looking for sex with a teen-age boy, authorities said. Instead, the former Boy Scout leader found the FBI’s Innocent Images Task Force.

According to Atlanta Area Council BSA spokeswoman Lisa Dukes, Shirley, 42, was a Boy Scout leader from at least 1985 to 1990. That year allegations surfaced about him, and the Boy Scouts determined he was no longer eligible to participate, Dukes said. A young boy in Cobb County had complained to his church about inappropriate behavior on Shirley’s part. The Boy Scouts passed the information on to the Department of Family and Children Services.

# Ex-Scout leader pleads guilty to sex charges (April 5, 2001 - Ottawa Citizen)

Timothy John Parris, 36, who plied two of his teen-age cadets with alcohol as they watched pornographic videos and engaged in sexual games, pleaded guilty to sex charges. He admitted to one count each of sexual exploitation and invitation to sexual touching.

One of Parris’s victims held his girlfriend’s hand and wept as he looked on from the rear of the courtroom. Parris is the former leader of the 26th Sea Venturers, a branch of Scouts Canada.

# Former Boy Scout assistant charged with molesting scouts 15 years ago (April 13, 2001 - Ohio News)

Dale T. Brant, 38, was indicted on 23 counts of third-degree sexual assault. He was arrested at his New Manchester home by West Virginia State Police. In 2000, two men said Brant repeatedly molested them between April 1985 and October 1986, when they were both 12 years old, said Hancock County Prosecutor James Davis.

# Scout leader’s sentence criticized (April 25, 2001 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Relatives of three young boys who were bound and physically abused by a Boy Scout leader on an overnight campout said they were appalled by the light sentence imposed on the defendant in a Westmoreland County, Pa., courtroom.

John T. Levendosky II, the assistant scoutmaster who pleaded guilty two months ago to 18 charges stemming from the incident and has been in jail about 10 1/2 months, will be eligible for parole in about a month and a half under the sentence handed down by Common Pleas Judge William J. Ober. Ober ordered Levendosky, of Derry Borough, to a maximum of two years in the Westmoreland County Prison, giving him credit for the time he has spent in prison since his arrest.

# Scouts leader charged with sex crimes (May 2, 2001 Evansville Courier & Press/AP).

Boy Scout troop leader Steve Woodard, 41, of Muncie, Ind., accused of molesting three brothers, has been charged with child molesting and sexual misconduct with a minor. Woodard remained in the Delaware County jail Wednesday morning (May 2) with bond set at $80,000.

Two of the alleged victims had been members of Woodard’s Scout troop, based out of Riverside United Methodist Church, authorities said. Woodard was suspended Tuesday by the Boy Scouts of America, police said.

Investigators said scouting officials had met with troop members to inform them of the arrest. One of the victims, now in his late teens, told investigators he had been molested by Woodard as many as 100 times over the past several years.

# Defendant: Sex wasn’t abusive (May 10, 2001 - Orange County Register)

The tall man in the dark-blue suit made his opening statement to jurors Wednesday. “I’m a pedophile, he admitted.

“I’m not going to stand here and say these acts didn’t occur - because they did,” said a well-groomed and articulate Kenneth Teague, representing himself in a lurid sex-abuse trial in Santa Ana, Calif. ... It has to do with “courage and kindness and trust and love,” said Teague, a former computer consultant in Irvine.

Hardly, said Deputy District Attorney Randy Payne, who painted Teague as a manipulative opportunist who abused his positions in the Boy Scouts, Big Brothers and foster-parent programs to seduce vulnerable boys.

# Former Scout leader guilty of sex charge (May 23, 2001 - Ottawa Citizen)

A former Ottawa assistant Scout leader admitted yesterday to asking a 14-year-old troop member to re-enact a pornographic film with him. Michael Dickey, 25, who was expected to go to trial yesterday on one count of sexual assault and three counts of sexual exploitation, pleaded guilty to one of the sexual exploitation charges.

The former assistant Sea Venturers leader, who quit the scouting movement in 1997, and another leader, Timothy Parris, were arrested in May 1999 after two boys complained to police about an incident that occurred the same year Dickey quit. Parris pleaded guilty in April to one count of sexual exploitation and one count of invitation to sexual touching. He’s scheduled to be sentenced next month.

# Scout Leader Faces Boy Sex Rap (May 23, 2001 - New York Daily News)

An Upper East Side scoutmaster was accused of sex abuse yesterday by a former Boy Scout who claims he was assaulted dozens of times in the troop leader’s Manhattan apartment and on campouts and overnight trips. The allegations were made in a $50 million lawsuit that targets scoutmaster Jerrold Schwartz, who has led Troop 666 at the prestigious St. Bartholomew’s Church for two decades.

“Jerrold Schwartz is a pedophile. We brought this lawsuit to stop him from having contact with children,” the former Scout’s attorney, Michael Dowd, said yesterday. Schwartz, 41, declined to comment.

The Greater New York Council of the Boy Scouts of America announced later he had been fired as scoutmaster.

# Judge denies pleas to close molest trial (June 19, 2001 - Boston Herald)

One boy’s post-traumatic stress is so bad, he has not eaten, slept or socialized normally in months. Another boy punches holes in walls as he struggles with his confusion and anger. Several of the youngsters fear being labeled as gay if they are even identified as victims of accused serial pedophile Christopher J. Reardon.

Those are among the accounts of anguished parents who wrote letters hoping to persuade a judge yesterday to close the courtroom when their children testify against Reardon in his upcoming trial.

``My son has been relentlessly tormented at school by boys who knew he was in Boy Scouts and therefore suspected he might be one of Reardon’s victims,’’ wrote the mother of one boy, now 12 years old, who Reardon is accused of molesting while videotaping the act.

NAMBLA Can Hardly Wait

Finally, there is this gem from the pedophile group North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).

In 1992, NAMBLA sent a letter to Ben Love, then chief Scout executive of the Boy Scouts of America. The following letter is an excerpt from NAMBLA’s Bulletin and written by its co-secretary:

“Dear Mr. Love,
At its 16th membership conference, held in Chicago, August 7-9, 1992, the North American Man/Boy Love Association unanimously adopted the following resolution: ‘NAMBLA calls on the Boy Scouts of America to cease its discrimination against openly gay or lesbian persons in the appointment of its scout masters. This will permit more of those individuals who genuinely wish to serve boys to do so.’ I feel especially honored to have been asked to alert you of this resolution... I have also been a scout and scout leader and share with so many in NAMBLA affection for the movement. We recognize, of course, that the action for which we call is inevitable. What a great added contribution your organization will make possible to all the boys and girls who participate in it when you take this step. May it be taken in the near future. We share a common mission - to bring greater understanding and light and purpose to the young as they grow. We invite you to join with us in cherishing individual integrity, and in seeking the opportunity for every boy and girl in our country to find their own truth. We encourage you to help every person associated with your organization to be able to express those values from themselves which to them represent for themselves the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. As we work together toward these ends Light will guide our way. We express these sentiments most respectfully, Very Cordially, Lehand Stevenson, C0-Recording Secretary, NAMBLA.

Source: Lehand Stevenson, NAMBLA Bulletin, November 1992.