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To: one_less who wrote (83199)6/29/2000 3:46:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
In my limited experience, most scoutmasters I've known were fathers of a kid in the troop. Which doesn't mean they can't be a pervert, but maybe limits the possibility somewhat. I recently read in the paper about a man who was just sentenced for pedophilia, it was his third conviction, and the family knew he was hanging out with young girls, but said nothing to the girls' families. Seems like the kind of social dysfunction that allows these guys to get away with it is incompatible with being a scoutmaster. Having said that, I am aware of a man who was a scoutmaster and into kinky threesomes, but with adults. He used his involvement in the scouts as a cover, because he had his fun while attending conventions. His wife didn't know until she found a trove of swinger magazines hidden in a suitcase, with ads featuring her husband in states of undress. The judge in the divorce trial, who was a deacon, slammed him. She got everything.



To: one_less who wrote (83199)6/29/2000 4:03:00 PM
From: epicure  Respond to of 108807
 
Soutmasters generally have to be supervised- for meetings there need to be two adults present (it's a bit like having a nurse in the room at the doctor) same with the girl scouts- so THAT means you need to find TWO pedophile adults in one troop willing to be leader and co-leader for a really good opportunity- and the odds of that happening are probably slim.

Preists, alas, are not as well supervised- though quite clearly they should be.