Nearly 90,000 sex abuse claims filed against Boy Scouts of America

[Sankari]

So the good ol' Boy Scouts of America turns out to have a sex abuse culture that's so extensive and deeply ingrained, it completely eclipses the abuses of the entire Catholic Church. That's quite an achievement.

The organization filed for bankruptcy in February after facing a slew of sex abuse reports. Claims had to be submitted by Monday at 5 p.m. ET.

Andrew Van Arsdale, one of the lead attorneys, called sex abuse an "unspoken norm" in BSA, per CNN. Claims include reports of forced sex, fondling and exposure to pornography.

"Most of the people coming forward, were not molested by people that the Boy Scouts even acknowledged they knew about, which shows that the problem was much more deeply ingrained in the fabric of the scouts and the scouts for decades and decades," he said.

Mones said the scale of abuse was much larger than the cases that emerged involving the Catholic Church in the U.S.

(Source).

And yes, they did the usual thing of covering up abuse while turning a blind eye to abusers:

The documents showed that the organization tracked suspected and known abusers but failed to report many of them to the police. Lawyers say the perversion files did not document every abuser — many remain unknown.

 

[Sankari]

Yea but oh look, what a surprise.

"The Boy Scouts of America requires all Scouts to believe in a God or comparable higher power, but currently admits Scouts who are non-theistic...."

It'll be run by religious crackpots.

Well... that used to be the case. But not so much these days.

* 2010: BSA allows heterosexual girls to join
* 2013: BSA allows gay girls and boys to join
* 2015: BSA starts hiring openly gay scoutmasters, while concealing the ongoing crisis of sexual abuse by closeted gay scoutmasters
* 2017: BSA allows openly transgender boys to join

 

[Sankari]

don't get the last bit - if they already allowed girls to join then what was preventing trangender boys joining before 2017?

Probably the fact that the BSA saw them as girls wanting to share private spaces with boys. Getting undressed together, using the same loos, sleeping in the same tents, etc.