#473: Scout's Honor: Child Sex Abuse Inside The Boy Scouts of America
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🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
For decades the Boy Scouts of America was a beloved American institution where millions of young boys (including Jim) were sent to learn character development, leadership, a value of service to others as well as many other wonderful practical skills ...and most of all to foster a sense of community. But buried beneath that shiny image were dark secrets that harmed thousands of children. A new Netflix documentary "Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America" exposes rampant child sex abuse that was allowed to continue within one of our most revered youth serving organizations. Join us as we analyze this incredibly painful and horrific story. TRIGGER WARNING, this episode has content that may be extremely upsetting. Listener discretion is advised.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is about child sex abuse and may be triggering for some listeners. |
| 0:06.0 | Please exercise caution. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm here to tell you that the organization is still not safe for boys and girls. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm not going to sit there and be quiet. |
| 0:17.4 | I know kids are still at risk in scouting. |
| 0:20.4 | Soon after the scouts were found in 1908, the scouts realized they had a problem. |
| 0:28.0 | They created what they called the red flag list, or perversion files. |
| 0:32.0 | These files were so sensitive that the Boy Scouts did |
| 0:35.1 | everything they could to make sure that they could not be seen by parents, by |
| 0:39.4 | police, even by other Scout leaders. So the instinctual move was to just make sure they buried it. |
| 0:46.8 | They see that this is potentially problematic for them and their reputation. |
| 0:51.6 | The Boyce got... them and their reputation. |
| 0:57.0 | The Boy Scots of America did not abuse these kids. We had some bad people that cut in. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, there's no way to profile them ahead of time and to identify people head of time. |
| 1:04.0 | People like that's bull. |
| 1:05.0 | One of the things that they had in their marketing messaging is the Boy Scouts has a rigorous |
| 1:09.8 | application and screening process. |
| 1:11.8 | And it's not true. |
| 1:13.3 | It has never been true. |
| 1:17.2 | This is a human rights movement for children |
| 1:19.0 | against one of the biggest offenders in the world. The Boy Scouts concluded that they were going to get |
| 1:24.9 | inundated with claims. I was amazed at how big that number got. 82,000 victims |
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