Secret and Lies of BOY SCOUTS (USA and Canada)!

I grew up in the Boy Scouts ... "Cubs" first and at a certain age "The Scouts." This was in England in the late 1940s and into the late 1950s.

The Cubs and Scouts I belonged to was a "church" run one. And I guess back in those years, at least in England, it was pretty "safe" from sexual problems - Scout leaders .... well you know what, taking advantage sexually with young boys. I certainly never heard anything about those kinds of leaders, I mean it was a basic time of innocence back then when we as young boys in the "cubs" and "scouts" never even knew shuch things, never heard such things, never knew such men existed. Looking back I'm hoping "never knew" was because it did not exist in those years.

I'll never know if it did or did not. All I experienced in the "Boy Scouts" was superb education, fun, great camping trips, indoor and outdoor sports, and many things we learnt.

Fast forward a few decades and go to North America - the USA and Canada. Well apparently there were many "men wanting boys" by this time - enough that both countries had "files" on the pedophiles. But apparently both the North and South Boy Scout organizations "policed themselves" and nothing was handed over to the real police. One Canadian pedophile guy was able to go after being caught by the Boy Scouts of the USA, back to Canada and do it all over again in Canada.

The Canadian investigative program "The Fifth Estate" last October revealed all this on the CBC National TV. Then the Boy Scouts of Canada, through their younger "head guy" announced a "very sorry" statement on Youtube, but then this man went on to say, the Canadian Scout group never kept secrets from the police. Well investigative "Fifth Estate" went to work once more, and found that such was NOT the case at all, and that back in the 1970s Boy Scouts of Canada did NOT AUTOMATICALLY inform the police about the pedophiles they found within their organization. The young "head fellow" was being told it was this way, and he then admitted before the camera of "Fifth Estate" that they were correct and he was incorrect. He was relatively the young new "head" of Boy Scouts Canada, hence was not really in the full know of what its policy was back in the 1970s.

It was hard to see the emotional stress that grown men today are still having to fight and the effect it is still having on them, because they were abused as boys by men they trusted.

Sad, sad, all the way around, that such would happen in an all boys organization, that for me and my experience was nothing but good and positive. It will all probably give parents second thoughts about having their boys join the Boy Scouts. It is such a different world today than when I was a boy ..... signs of the the end times, where Jesus said "evil shall abound, and the love of many shall max cold" - the true love - the correct love - would go cold.

I'm sure Mr. Powell when he started Boy Scouts never dreamed in his wildest dream that it could become a haven for pedophiles, but such is the evil today ... sad, sad indeed.
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