BUT, what did their volunteer activities as "rescuers" have to do with anything? Was the teen someone they had "rescued"?
Of late, I see "journalists" trying to "hang a label on" offenders -- especially if they can identify them with some group they want to smear by association.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. What purpose does “volunteer search and rescue rapists” have to do with anything. They may have well said “Elemetary School Graduates.” Of course we all know if they were republicans it would have been “Republican voters, supporters, who donated money to Mitt Romney and shop at Walmart rape 17 year old child.”