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N.J. scoutmaster 'groomed' boy for sex, cops say
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com ^ | Craig McCarthy

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: boyscouts; frankthomson; grooming; homosexualagenda; mittromney; recruiting
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To: Mount Athos

Applause for the concerned citizen who saved this boy from a predator.


21 posted on 07/30/2015 1:58:32 PM PDT by georgia peach (georgia peach)
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To: Mount Athos

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


22 posted on 07/30/2015 2:03:48 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Mount Athos

Anyone allowing their sons in the boy scouts today is IMO a child abuser.


23 posted on 07/30/2015 2:04:34 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: conservative98

Thomson or Thompson?


24 posted on 07/30/2015 2:04:44 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Mount Athos

Well this guy was in Boy Scouts under the OLD policy prohibiting gay scoutmasters

so go figure

Nobody knew nuffin?


25 posted on 07/30/2015 2:05:23 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: FoxInSocks

my bad.


26 posted on 07/30/2015 2:08:33 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Mount Athos

N.J. scoutmaster ‘groomed’ boy for sex...

Unexpected.


27 posted on 07/30/2015 2:08:38 PM PDT by lurk
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To: Mount Athos

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.


28 posted on 07/30/2015 2:09:17 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Mount Athos

Why not put hetrosexual men in charge of teen-aged girl scout troops?


29 posted on 07/30/2015 2:20:43 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: Mount Athos
BSA Youth Protection Training

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.

30 posted on 07/30/2015 2:26:03 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: tflabo

The queers will come after Trail Life next.


31 posted on 07/30/2015 2:39:00 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: Steely Tom

Fabulous!

(Cue techno club music)


32 posted on 07/30/2015 2:39:19 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Daveinyork

“This is exactly what the Boy Scouts have been trying to avoid.”

That is what they PREVIOUSLY, throughout their history, tried to avoid.


33 posted on 07/30/2015 2:42:06 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Daveinyork
This is exactly what the Boy Scouts have been trying to avoid.

Yeah, they've been trying to avoid anyone finding out about it.

34 posted on 07/30/2015 2:44:00 PM PDT by LouAvul (There is no more GOP. There is RAT, and RAT lite.)
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To: Mount Athos

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.


35 posted on 07/30/2015 3:15:30 PM PDT by chae (The Lannisters send their regards--Game of Thrones)
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To: Mount Athos

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!!


36 posted on 07/30/2015 3:17:46 PM PDT by G Larry (Obama is replicating the instruments of the fall of Rome)
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To: Steely Tom

Please FReepers....do NOT submit design ideas!!


37 posted on 07/30/2015 3:18:43 PM PDT by G Larry (Obama is replicating the instruments of the fall of Rome)
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To: Daveinyork
This is exactly what the Boy Scouts have been trying to avoid.

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.

38 posted on 07/30/2015 3:39:09 PM PDT by Chuckster ("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
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To: Mount Athos

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.


39 posted on 07/30/2015 4:06:34 PM PDT by GoneSalt
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To: RginTN

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?


40 posted on 07/30/2015 4:48:37 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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