Several cases reviewed by USA TODAY suggest the Boy Scouts of America could have done more to prevent abuse.
Teachers. Doctors. A small-town Mayor. New sex abuse claims against Boy Scouts suggest leaders exploited prominent positionsThe names of hundreds of alleged pedophiles were revealed Monday in a lawsuit brought by former scouts who say they were sexually abused as members of Boy Scouts of America.
The list, obtained by USA TODAY, details molestation ranging from fondling to sodomy. Some of the men accused by former scouts ended up in court or were punished administratively for similar crimes, sometimes many years after their alleged assaults. About two dozen of the men were kicked out of scouting for abuse. USA TODAY is only naming those who fit one or more of those categories.
“Looking at the hidden predators we’re uncovering it sends chills down my spine,” said Tim Kosnoff, an attorney in the case who led abusedinscouting.com, a campaign to encourage new victims to come forward before the lawsuit was filed late Monday in Pennsylvania State Court. “It remains an open question of just how dangerous scouting is today.”
A USA TODAY review of the law firm’s client list found only 28 of the men also were named in Boy Scouts’ files, known internally as the “perversion files.” In those cases, the incidents on the new client list allegedly happened either before or around the time the scout leader was blacklisted. Matt Stewart, who with his brother filed the lawsuit in 2003 that exposed the ineligible volunteer files for the first time, is not surprised by the recent avalanche of allegations, even so many years later.
New allegations collected by the law firm include those made against Gary Stroup, a former troop leader and teacher. He was banned from Boy Scouts after being accused of groping 11-year-old boys in 1989. Yet he remained a member of the National Eagle Scout Association, according to a letter Boy Scouts sent to his local council two years later, reminding them Stroup was ineligible as a scout volunteer.
In 2005, Stroup was indicted on multiple counts of sexually abusing children at two schools where he had worked. He entered a plea on two counts of gross sexual exploitation and was sentenced to four years in prison. “At about 11 or 12 when I first smoked pot I thought I was in heaven,” Gailor said. “What attracted me was the dope.”His account offers an eerie foreshadowing of what was to come.
Prompted by the 1982 criminal case, prosecutors investigated Falco for sexually abusing boys, including some in his Boy Scout troop. But Falco wasn’t charged because victims were afraid to testify, a prosecutor later told the Palm Beach Post. In 2007, his license was again revoked, this time permanently, when the board found he had ignored that directive and also offered negligent care to patients he was treating for autism at a holistic medical practice he had founded.“I think it is so hard for victims, particularly young victims, because these events rarely occur with a stranger,” said Deborah Daro, senior research fellow at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.
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