Y'all think you have it all figured out and that child molestation was an everyday thing in Boy Scouts. I don't agree.
You say that only 10 percent of boys who are molested report it to the police. That may be true, but many boys would tell their fellow Scouts what had happened.
For this type of behavior to happen it had to go on at campouts. I went on at least 50 weekend campouts. We had little pup tents, two boys to a tent. We would have 16 Boy Scouts, and then maybe 2 troop leaders. The troop leaders would be in a big tent. Now, how is one of those men going to lure a boy into that big tent at midnight, without the other man seeing what is going on? The other boy in the pup tent would surely notice when the man came over and got his tent mate out of the tent at midnight.
Further this is hardly a private situation. Eight to ten tents, all within ten feet of each other, boys getting up all night long to go to the bathroom, etc. Hardly the kind of privacy that would be needed for child rape to be going on.
Fifty weekend campouts in Boy Scouts, plus five times to Camp Bert Adams, that is another 30 nights in the woods with hundreds of Scouts. And never a hint of any kind of child molestation.
Of course there would have been scattered instances, but no way it was an everyday thing. Our Scoutmasters in Atlanta were most all WW2 veterans, they were real men and they were there to help and protect little boys, not to harm them.
