Prosecute Boy Scouts of America For Protecting Sexual Molesters

Target: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

Goal: Prosecute Boy Scouts of America for concealing information regarding sexual offenders and force them to release files kept on suspected sexual molesters.

Having concealed pedophiles from due justice, thereby allowing sexual deviants to violate children over many years, the Boy Scouts of America organization has shattered our faith in their ability to guide our youth towards brighter futures.

Throughout its over a century existence, the Scouts have promised to safeguard our children while providing leadership and life skills; instead, it has safeguarded pedophiles by not disclosing suspected molesters to the police. In fact, a Scouts policy memo from 1972 has surfaced indicating that the organization insisted officials “indicate to the accused molester that the Scouts will not share this information with anyone and only wish him to stop all Scouting activity”.

Not only does this endanger the security of children in the Boy Scouts, conceal invaluable information from the authorities, but it also has proven to be a completely inadequate procedure for protecting the children in Boy Scouts. Indeed, a court case in 2010 ruled that the Scouts were insane for allowing assistant Scoutmaster Timur Dykes to continue to participate in the Scouts with his sexual victims after he confessed to a bishop that he had molested 17 boy scouts by 1983.

In another horrifying example of the organization’s egregious misconduct, it was discovered that Richard Turley, who began molesting boy scouts in 1971, but was subsequently arrested and then released in 1976, molested three boy scouts again in 1979. Still, Scouts officials as well as the victims parents merely told Turley to return to Canada and did not report the incident to the police.

Yet, the most astonishing detail of this entire sordid affair is that the Boy Scouts of America has been keeping detailed records of all suspected molesters, but refuses to turn these records over to the authorities who would be able to pursue past molesters in addition to current ones.

Government officials must regard the Scouts’ procedure for hiding suspected molesters from police as being an accomplice to sexual molestation. Sign this petition to protect all children from sexual assault by demanding further prosecution of the Boy Scouts of America, forcing the Scouts to change their policy regarding molesters, and imploring authorities to demand the records of sexual offenders within the Boy Scouts.


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