The NBC News affiliate WAFF in Huntsville, Alabama recently interviewed me concerning the history of the Boy Scouts’ Ineligible Volunteer or “Perversion” Files and the successful outcome before the Oregon Supreme Court in forcing the Boy Scouts to make these internal documents public. The release of these files is one of the biggest breakthrough in […]
Richard Herbert Smith — Boy Scouts Perversion Files
May 1, 2014 By
Richard Herbert Smith was a volunteer Scoutmaster with Boy Scout Troop 269 in Tillamook, Oregon from 1981 until 1983. In July 1990, a paid Scout Executive working for the Columbia Pacific Council of the BSA sent a “Confidential Record Sheet” about Richard Herbert Smith to the national office of the Boy Scouts. The form cryptically […]
Robert Joseph Ewing — Boy Scouts Perversion Files
April 29, 2014 By
Oregon Cub Scout volunteer Robert Joseph Ewing was kicked out of the Boy Scouts in 1991 after his sister reported to BSA that he had an interest in underage boys. Ewing had been associated with Cub Scout Pack 777 in Florence, Oregon since 1990 when his sister alerted Boy Scout officials about Ewing’s past sexual […]
Do You Know James Allen Wilson?
April 19, 2014 By
BREAKING NEWS from Oregon.gov: A Prineville, Oregon Boy Scout volunteer James Allen Wilson has been indicted on charges of Sex Abuse in the First Degree. Following an investigation by Oregon State Police, James Allen Wilson, age 36, from Prineville, was indicted by a Klamath County Grand Jury and an arrest warrant issued. The investigation involved […]
Do You Have Information on Prineville Scoutmaster James Allen Wilson?
April 19, 2014 By
BREAKING NEWS: A Prineville, Oregon Boy Scout volunteer has been indicted on charges of Sex Abuse in the First Degree. Following an investigation by Oregon State Police, James Allen Wilson, age 36, from Prineville, was indicted by a Klamath County Grand Jury and an arrest warrant issued. The investigation involved allegations that Wilson sexually abused […]
Girl Boy Scouts? Yes, There Are Girls in the Boy Scouts
April 14, 2014 By
Sometime in the 1960s, the Boy Scouts commissioned a study to determine why many boys started losing interest in Scouting when they entered their teen years. This study concluded that interest in Scouting was inversely proportional to interest in girls. Go figure. (To be fair, the study reached several conclusions about how to keep older […]
Four Men Sue Mormon Church, Boy Scouts over Sexual Abuse
June 24, 2013 By
Four former Idaho boy scouts are suing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and the Boy Scouts of America because they say neither group did enough to prevent them from being sexually abused as children. The attorneys for the four men with Idaho ties make the case that both organizations could have […]
Did Boy Scouts, LDS Church Fail to Inform Parents of Pedophiles?
June 24, 2013 By
A federal court case filed here Monday against the Boy Scouts of America and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) names a Driggs man as one of three alleged perpetrators of sexual abuse crimes against now-former Boy Scouts. Plaintiffs in the case accuse the defendants — the LDS Church, (that has […]
Gilion Dumas: Files Reveal Cover-up on Scoutmaster Abuse [VIDEO]
October 18, 2012 By
Gilion Dumas, co-counsel on the Boy Scout case, talks about the recently released “perversion files,” which details allegations of sexual abuse within the Boy Scouts. The perversion files were the subject of a hotly contested court battle and were instrumental in bringing justice for the survivors of Boy Scout sexual abuse.