[polymuser]

I’m curious to know if this is a recent decades thing, or if it was always there.

[itsahoot]

I’m curious to know if this is a recent decades thing, or if it was always there.

The full article mentions 1940 as the beginning of the records.

[Steely Tom]

I’m curious to know if this is a recent decades thing, or if it was always there.

If it was always there, I think there would have been lawsuits and prosecutions, a la the Catholic Priest cases.

[oldvirginian]

“I’m curious to know if this is a recent decades thing, or if it was always there.”

Probably always there but well hidden. Decades ago perverts knew to keep quiet and hidden.
I would bet a dollar to a doughnut the last 15-20 years will show a HUGE spike in the numbers. The pervs are out, loud and proud these days.

[Perseverando]

I’m curious to know if this is a recent decades thing, or if it was always there.

No it's always been there.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for [p]a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed [q]forever. Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is [r]unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing [s]indecent acts and receiving in [t]their own persons the due penalty of their error.

28 And just as they did not see fit [u]to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, [v]haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

Romans 1: 24-32

[bIlluminati]

It was there in the 1960s. He was arrested, convicted, and after that, the newspaper didn’t follow up.

[MacNaughton]

4 I’m curious to know if this is a recent decades thing, or if it was always there.

6 The full article mentions 1940 as the beginning of the records.

7 If it was always there, I think there would have been lawsuits and prosecutions, a la the Catholic Priest cases.

Veteran scouters have heard for years that the BSA perversion files were started in the 1930s.

In this 1990 biography of the founder of the world-wide scouting movement, Lord Robert S.S. Baden-Powell, it was mentioned that in 1 of the first Wood Badge courses (advanced training for leaders) held at Gilwell during the early 1920s, a staff trainer was evicted for child molestation during the event.

11 Probably always there but well hidden. Decades ago perverts knew to keep quiet and hidden. I would bet a dollar to a doughnut the last 15-20 years will show a HUGE spike in the numbers. The pervs are out, loud and proud these days.

When the news broke earlier this year that BSA was exploring ways to avoid filing bankruptcy, the cause was stated as lawsuit payoffs for child molestation cases during the 1980s and later.

13 No it's always been there.

20 I would bet a dollar to a doughnut the last 15-20 years will show a HUGE spike in the numbers.

I agree this has been since the gays came out wanting more than to keep govt out of their bedrooms. On camping trips (60s) we always had 2-3 dads for 15-20 boys weekends and summer camp.

You had a fortunate troop. It was not uncommon for troops to go weekend camping, or to week-long summer camp, with just 1 adult volunteer.

36 … The vast majority of lawsuits stems from the 1980s period. They got serious about this in the late 80s/early 90s.

Youth Protection Training was introduced around 1987 to guard against child molestation. Better late than never.