#474: Scout's Honor: Child Sex Abuse Inside The Boy Scouts of America | Part 2
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🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
After decades of ignoring thousands of child sexual abuse reports going on under their watch, the Boy Scouts of American finally had a reckoning in 2010 when a brave former scout came forward to file a lawsuit and testify. Kerry Lewis was only 11 years old when he was repeatedly sexually abused by an assistant scoutmaster named Timur Dykes. Even though Dykes had previously confessed to his superior, another scouting leader, to sexually abusing 17 boys in their troup, Dykes was allowed to continue with the organization and continue to abuse Kerry as well as others.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is about child sex abuse and maybe triggering for some listeners. |
| 0:05.0 | Please exercise caution. |
| 0:07.0 | A boy scout is trustworthy. |
| 0:10.0 | Loyal, courteous, kind, brave, and obedient. |
| 0:14.4 | Scouts help other people at all times. |
| 0:17.1 | They leave no trace. |
| 0:18.8 | One thing about scouting once you're in, you don't leave. Parents gave the Boy Scouts the most valuable thing they had, |
| 0:26.0 | their children. |
| 0:27.0 | And the Boy Scouts told parents, |
| 0:29.0 | you can trust us. |
| 0:30.0 | We will be good for your son. |
| 0:32.0 | The leadership of the Boy Scouts had identified over a thousand men that were using the program to abuse boys. |
| 0:41.0 | They did this as a fire to be put out, a secret to be kept. |
| 0:45.0 | That first he was just a nice guy. |
| 0:50.0 | It wasn't even like a week, but it the night I got there. He started doing stuff. |
| 0:55.0 | I just thought what is going on and is this normal? |
| 1:00.0 | It just it got much worse from that. |
| 1:04.0 | They're unbelievable. |
| 1:06.0 | They are unbelievably heartbreaking stories. |
| 1:13.0 | So many of them are haunted by who they would have become |
| 1:19.0 | and this never happened to them. |
| 1:22.0 | And we started saying, oh my God, there were troop leaders being found to have abused children at one troop and then a year later at another troop and again and again. |
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