
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><head><title>[Bobwhite Blather] Youth Protection update</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://bobwhiteblather.com/bb/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body>There's a new item at Bobwhite Blather: '<a href="https://bobwhiteblather.com/youth-protection-update/?utm_source=subscribe2&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=postnotify&utm_id=5380&utm_title=Youth%20Protection%20update ">Youth Protection update</a>'<br />

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<div class="pf-content"><p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5069" src="https://bobwhiteblather.com/bb/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ypt-155x141.png" alt="" width="155" height="141" />You might have heard a story recently, first reported by <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/04/26/717201092/abuse-by-boy-scout-leaders-more-widespread-than-earlier-thought" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">National Public Radio,</a> about how cases of child abuse in the past by volunteers of the Boy Scouts of America were significantly under-reported. The existence of the Ineligible Volunteer (IV) files, or “perversion files” as they were sometimes called internally, was revealed in 2012 as the result of a court case. These files were secretly kept by the BSA as far back as the 1920s and contains information on thousands of volunteers suspected in tens of thousands of incidents of child abuse.</p>

<p>As one lawsuit led to another, the BSA began exploring bankruptcy protection proceedings last year in order to shield itself from eventual destruction by a potential onslaught of “me too” cases. That’s not to diminish the concerns of those aggrieved, but as we have seen with other organizations, we could be on the verge of extinction as an organization if these lawsuits proceed to destroy the BSA.</p>

<p>I’ve been asked by friends and co-workers about the latest news. </p></div><br />

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