Posted on 07/30/2015 1:44:46 PM PDT by Mount Athos
A scoutmaster with a Boy Scout troop in South Jersey was "grooming" a young boy for sexual purposes by buying him pricey gifts, officials said Thursday.
The Cape May man, Frank Thomson, was arrested and charged Tuesday with luring an 11-year-old boy after a concerned citizen tipped off authorities earlier this month to suspicious activity between the two, Cape May County Prosecutor Robert L. Taylor said in a release.
During several interviews with 68-year-old man, authorities say they discovered a separate incident several years ago where Thomson sexually assaulted a young boy. Additional charges were brought against Thomson on Wednesday.
Thomson was an assistant scoutmaster for a West Cape May Boy Scout troop as well as the treasurer at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Cape May, according to authorities.
Thomson has been charged with aggravated sexual contact, luring and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child. He is being held at the Cape May County Correctional Center on $175,000 bail.
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Applause for the concerned citizen who saved this boy from a predator.
wth did he not have a record for the prior assault and if not why not???
and if so, why didn’t the BSA turn it up on a background check???
at age 68 this old pedo has probably done a LOT of damage
Anyone allowing their sons in the boy scouts today is IMO a child abuser.
Thomson or Thompson?
Well this guy was in Boy Scouts under the OLD policy prohibiting gay scoutmasters
so go figure
Nobody knew nuffin?
my bad.
N.J. scoutmaster ‘groomed’ boy for sex...
Unexpected.
This will get worse thanks to Robert Gates. It shows the incompetency of the Boy Scouts of America leadership. I do not have great hopes for this American institution.
Why not put hetrosexual men in charge of teen-aged girl scout troops?
If your child is being molested someone wasn't doing their job correctly and instead of bonding with, and teaching your son within the Scouting program, you abandoned him and used it as a babysitting service.
The queers will come after Trail Life next.
Fabulous!
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“This is exactly what the Boy Scouts have been trying to avoid.”
That is what they PREVIOUSLY, throughout their history, tried to avoid.
Yeah, they've been trying to avoid anyone finding out about it.
I don’t agree with the new policy, but at the same time, having a ban on gay leaders hasn’t stopped this from happening.
I’m not ok with this policy, I think it’s going to add to these problems, but I do get annoyed with people acting like this stuff didn’t happen before this new policy.
For crying out loud....that is the PURPOSE for letting them in!
If there were no grooming, recruiting, and MOLESTATION, they wouldn’t want in, in the first place!
Fat people don’t open bakeries to avoid temptation!!
Please FReepers....do NOT submit design ideas!!
What? Getting caught?
Any sane person should have seen this coming. It was happening before the BSA welcomed openly practicing homos into leadership positions. They were just better at keeping it a secret.
Wonder if they hand out “Diversity” merit badges.
If I were going to have a “scout” program to prepare kids for the future, first merit badge would be how to walk in the jungle, because if the jungle isn’t at your door, it’s coming.
A few year back I gave some informational material on homosexual teaching in the schools to a couple of mothers who have children in school. They didn’t act with shock as I expected but one of the mothers said that families come in different kinds. Dummies. What happened to the mothering instinct?
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