Comments on: Boy Scouts Lawsuit Opens Secret Files

Released To Attorney Representing Brothers In Sex Abuse Suit Against Scouts & Former Troop Leader

[cyberdjs4]

Sounds like Dana417 is a "Man Hater".
Maybe she was molested herself.

Real men know right from wrong.

She should associate with a better class of man and free your hate before somebody gets hurt.

[zorlacskates]

yea, those stupid "victims" of methodical, calculated and preventable sexual abuse! how dare they complain! shame on cbs for tainting the boyscout organization by reporting this story. let''s all pretend like we didn''t read this, deal? if we pretend like nothing is wrong then the problem goes away.

[dana417]

Men = Dogs

I was a Mommy Den Leader for years and we loved it.

Mom''s don''t DO this sota stuff.

What is wrong with men these days?

Too much porno, viagra, liquor, drugs?

EH?

[ag9265]

My son was abused by his employer, he owned a night club for teens. I can truely understand the torment these two men have gone thru , I know first hand the damage it did to my son. I am sorry but a red flag should come up or it does for me now when ANY Grown Man wants to be alone with a yound boy or teen. I know of this man thats in his late50''s and he is never been married and has no children, but I hear stories how he goes on these trips with the scouts, well let me tell you, I have a grandson and I would never alow him to go anywhere with this guy. People need to questions why? I sure wish I would have 12 Years ago, but the signs were there, and when your child all of a sudden looses interest and say I dont want to go anymore, don''t push them, it may be that theres a real good reason why!!!

[mcv57]

Hmmmmmm, think about it. First the Catholic Church *** scandels, GOP Senate *** scandels, now the Boys Scouts. The only reason we have not heard anything about the U.S. law enforcement agencies is because they have the best CORRUPTION policy . . . care to name it?

[a1bamaman]

To all who have written about this story. It is a tragedy what happened to those two men as a youth but your not a boy scout at the ages of 6-11. They were Cub Scouts.
I am proud to be a leader for my sons and the youth of my community. I have been in the scouting family for 7 years now and I love to teach and pass on the knowledge I was given by my family and life experiences.
The Scouting program is the only program I know that has put more honorable in places most have not been. For example, the space program has 12 out of 13 astronauts that are eagle scouts, President Gerald Ford was an Eagle Scout, and many more men in this country are eagle scouts( firemen, police officers,etc.). You just don''t know until you ask.
Now , my question to those who want to critize the program, where is another program that has done any better or can compare to the BSA?

[thatchmo62]

The Boysouts is a great organization. I have three sons in scouts and they''ve learned a lot of skills and have had a great time with all of the supervised activities. Unfortunately, it''s difficult to have a 100% success rate at screening out the badguys from any organization. That being said, for these two to sue 25 to 30 years after the fact seems to be because of all of the succesful lawsuits against the Catholic church for their failures. Now you''ll probably have oportunistic lawyers seeking out more "victims" to enrich themselves and hurt a very positive organization like the Boyscouts.

[donbl1]

There are thousands of law suits every day in America for thousands of different offenses.

This incident neither condemns the entire Boy Scouts nor does it say it is prevalent throughout the BSA. It does say why BSA trys to control the entry of gay or pedophiles into BSA volunteers.

If the Catholic Church had been so motivated, they would not have had the problems of the last 15 years.

[bobgee_1999]

larsonfamil1: Apparently Boyscouts didn''t teach you anything useful about writing coherently.

Anyway, I guess it''s clear now why Scouts discriminate against ***, isn''t it? They want to eliminate the competition.

[nyckate]

Scout01971 - there are a lot of great leaders - they are also dangerous ones - and the scouts were wrong to keep covering up for the child molesters. These child molestors probably also joined community CYO or Church groups -- anything that gve them access to the kids.

If the parents knew about these guys they wouldn''t let them within a mile of their kid s- but the scouts helped keep them undercover.

[jkhagemann]

Doesn''t suprise me at all. I''ll bet they were all "Outstanding Christians" in their community. Church every Sunday, probably ushers and elders as well. I don''t know... I think those raised as "American" Christians seem to have so many sexual hang-ups.

[scout01971]

Child abuse is terrible in any situation. And I know it hurts any organization. But, Scouting does do a lot more good than harm. Look at how many success stories it has and more will come.
CBS should now do a segment on the merits and successes of Scouting. It is a wonderful organization that will continue to have great gains.

[larsonfamil1]

i think you are rediculous boyscouts is a very good thing for kids it helps them a lot in all sorts of sitsuations and it helps them to get prepared for life and to help them survive in the wild just because you didnt like it dosent mean that you have to say that it is a bad thang and that your kids shouldnt do it because if you were to look around you, you would see that they actually do a lot to help your camunnity and they are not bad at all i dont see any other groups in my cammunnity that helps my camunnity!!!!!!!!! and its not the boyscouts that are bad it is the leaders who lead it, it really disapoints me for you to say that it is a bad thing for kids to do because i am a kid and i have learned a lot through boyscouts and it has really helped me it helps otheres so i think you are just being realy stupid saying that boyscouts is bad for kids because it is GOOD!!!!!!