Boy Scout Leader Charged With Abuse

AP ^ | 6/27/02 | AP

[TomServo]

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo.- A Boy Scout leader was charged Thursday with 32 counts of sexually abusing boys, police said.

David Neil Brown, 40, of Blue Springs turned himself into police Thursday and was charged with 19 counts of first-degree sodomy and 13 counts of second-degree sodomy, police Sgt. Mike Kruger said. He is being held on $1 million bond.

Kruger said Brown abused six boys from 13 to 15 years old, most of them in the last two years.

"He's a Boy Scout leader, and that accounts for some of his victims," Kruger said. "Others were friends or acquaintances of his children."

Police began investigating Brown in February when a 15-year-old boy and his mother came forward and said Brown abused the boy at Brown's home, a movie theater and other places.

Brown admitted to sexual contact with that boy and others, police said. Detectives seized computers from Brown's home that contained pornographic pictures of children, police said.

[Illbay]

"He's a Boy Scout leader, and that accounts for some of his victims,"...

I'm sure that was only a coincidence, though. We know that the homosexuals don't actually TRY to get access to Boy Scout troops for recreational purposes. After all, they said so.

[KC Burke]

The article leaves out where this abuse is alledged to have occured. At a Scout Troop function or campout, the rule is "two deep" leadership and if it was such a setting, there were other adult leaders that let these kids down and failed to follow BSA policy meant to prevent such events from occuring.

[RonF]

Sounds like the abuse was recent, too. It'll be interesting to see, as stated above, where the abuse occurred. I wonder how many of these kids were Scouts. Two deep leadership and youth protection policies would prevent this from occurring on offical BSA outings, but if he had the kid come to his house unaccompanied in a non-Scouting setting (and idiotic parents allowed it), the Scouts are not responsible.

[Busywhiskers]

It will also be interesting to see if the kid who came forward did so because of the Youth Protection training provided by BSA.

[VOA]

Boy Scout Leader Charged With Abuse

This article is interesting in terms of journalism for what it does NOT say.

No mention of a wife, ex-wife, or girlfriend for the accussed.

Anytime a male gets arrested for pedophilia/sex abuse, his marital status (married, divorced,
engaged, etc.) always gets mentioned.

The lefties of the press religiously do this so as to help their mantra that pedophiles are
virtually never homosexuals.
Looks like this guy just didn't know how to go along with their script.

[Mercat]

Anybody know whether he was at one time a teacher at Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington MO? My daughter, who went there, said she heard some teacher from that school had been arrested for molesting boys.

[Paul Atreides]

Get ready for a staggering silence from the media.

[JCG]

Two deep leadership and youth protection policies would prevent this from occurring on offical BSA outings, but if he had the kid come to his house unaccompanied in a non-Scouting setting (and idiotic parents allowed it), the Scouts are not responsible.

When dealing with criminal sex-perverts even the most extraordinary amount of prevention is seldom enough. The two-deep leadership helps, but if the perv is clever and gregarious he'll worm his way into having what he wants. He'll seek vulnerabilities, make friends with the parents, build up his reputation in the troop until nobody would suspect him of anything and then attack. The parents aren't idiotic, just deceived. It's very similar to what the priests have been doing.

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[LarryLied]

AP style book must ban the use of the "H" word. Second article in two days which refused to spell it out.

[JCG]

Anybody know whether he was at one time a teacher at Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington MO? My daughter, who went there, said she heard some teacher from that school had been arrested for molesting boys.

Actually it was the result of a sting operation by the cops where the academy commandant had tried to arrange a meeting with a 13-year-old girl.

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[ambrose]

"He's a Boy Scout leader, and that accounts for some of his victims," Kruger said. "Others were friends or acquaintances of his children."

[yendu bwam]

When dealing with criminal sex-perverts even the most extraordinary amount of prevention is seldom enough. The two-deep leadership helps, but if the perv is clever and gregarious he'll worm his way into having what he wants. He'll seek vulnerabilities, make friends with the parents, build up his reputation in the troop until nobody would suspect him of anything and then attack. The parents aren't idiotic, just deceived. It's very similar to what the priests have been doing.

This is exactly how it happens. Two deep leadership is good; it's not a panacea.

[yendu bwam]

The vast, vast majority of parents wouldn't send their teenage daughters out on overnight camping trips under the supervision normal heterosexual male adults. The same parents are loathe to send their teenage sons out with male homosexuals. It's not bigotry; it's just common sense. But in addition, homosexual men are far more likely to molest teenage boys than heterosexual men teenage girls. The Catholic Church scandal illustrates this, where a minority of priests (homosexual) committed around 95% of the molestations against teenage boys. There were very few heterosexual molestations, even though heterosexual priests are the majority. Homosexual men have no right to be in close quarters with my teenage sons in the Boy Scouts. The Boy Scout policy on homosexuality is wise and protects many kids. The Catholic Church should follow suit if it's really concerned about kids.

[yendu bwam]

We know that the homosexuals don't actually TRY to get access to Boy Scout troops for recreational purposes. After all, they said so.

Putting a homosexual man in charge of a bunch of teenage boys is like putting an alcoholic in charge of a liquor store.

[gcruse]

 
 "Others were friends or acquaintances of his children."

 We know that the homosexuals don't actually...<snip>

What homosexual?  The guys has kids.  You'd
be closer with, say, omnisexual.

[Illbay]

A good many homosexuals lead "normal" lives then suddenly "discover" they are gay.

I had a friend who was married to a guy for twelve years, before he came home one day from work, packed his things and moved in with "Bruce."

[RonF]

Well, it's a pretty sketchy story. I wouldn't draw too many conclusions from it. I'm waiting for the followup.

[RonF]

As pointed out, the one thing you will notice is that it mentions he has kids.

I notice the usual pattern regarding Scout leaders accused of abuse; if a Scouter is accused of abuse, the press always leads with "Scout Leader Accused of Abuse", regardless of the connection between his registration and his activities. I've even seen "Former Scout Leader Accused of Abuse", where the abuser *had* been a leader, but was not registered with the BSA during the time period that the abuses took place.

[RonF]

When dealing with criminal sex-perverts even the most extraordinary amount of prevention is seldom enough. The two-deep leadership helps, but if the perv is clever and gregarious he'll worm his way into having what he wants. He'll seek vulnerabilities, make friends with the parents, build up his reputation in the troop until nobody would suspect him of anything and then attack. The parents aren't idiotic, just deceived. It's very similar to what the priests have been doing.

When we started our Scout Troop, we initially were sponsored by a Park District, which is a municipal-type organization; tax funded, elected officials, independent of any other municipal government. They queried me regarding the risk of this kind of thing. I told them about the BSA's 2-deep and YP policies.

I then pointed out that many of the rest of their programs violated these guidelines, especially their sports teams. It's quite common for a single adult to run a practice, and for an adult to drive home a kid that he isn't a parent/guardian of.

My point being that these guys did none of the things you mention. A lot of these parents just drop their kids off and pick them up, don't even talk to the coach, and I think they'd be lucky to pick this coach out of a lineup. I know this because I make it my business to randomly show up at a practice or two and stay for the whole thing, and I see how the other parents act, how many coaches there are, etc. So I stand by my comment. In most cases, it's just sheer idiotic neglect by the parents.