Across 42nd Street on the opposite sidewalk is the place where the Boy Scout leader, Carlos Acevedo – Charlie, as everyone knew him – would stand watching and waiting for the 13-year-old to bring back the cash.
“Be prepared” is the institution’s motto, but as the lawsuit points out, the Boy Scouts of America itself was woefully unprepared, and until recently arguably unwilling, to address the rampant sexual abuse of children in its care by its own adult volunteers.
The lawsuit alleges that Acevedo sexually assaulted Ronnie on at least 15 overnight Boy Scouts camping trips, including at sites owned by the organization such as Ten Mile River and Alpine.
They included his own late brother Tommy, who Hunter learned much later had been told early on by neighbors that Acevedo “did bad things with little boys” but didn’t share the information with him.
Hunter’s lawsuit cites a 1935 New York Times interview with the institution’s chief executive, Dr James West, in which he admitted that adult men “seek to enter scouting” to “undertake to deal with sex matters”.
But as the New York Times has reported, files were frequently kept secret in order to spare the organization the discomfort of public disclosure, and there have been cases of volunteers ejected from one scout troop reappearing in another.
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Across 42nd Street on the opposite sidewalk is the place where the Boy Scout leader, Carlos Acevedo – Charlie, as everyone knew him – would stand watching and waiting for the 13-year-old to bring back the cash.
“Be prepared” is the institution’s motto, but as the lawsuit points out, the Boy Scouts of America itself was woefully unprepared, and until recently arguably unwilling, to address the rampant sexual abuse of children in its care by its own adult volunteers.
The lawsuit alleges that Acevedo sexually assaulted Ronnie on at least 15 overnight Boy Scouts camping trips, including at sites owned by the organization such as Ten Mile River and Alpine.
They included his own late brother Tommy, who Hunter learned much later had been told early on by neighbors that Acevedo “did bad things with little boys” but didn’t share the information with him.
Hunter’s lawsuit cites a 1935 New York Times interview with the institution’s chief executive, Dr James West, in which he admitted that adult men “seek to enter scouting” to “undertake to deal with sex matters”.
But as the New York Times has reported, files were frequently kept secret in order to spare the organization the discomfort of public disclosure, and there have been cases of volunteers ejected from one scout troop reappearing in another.
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