… Please also understand that this decision and the reasons for it will be maintained as confidential."
The assistant Scoutmaster claimed in a letter to Boy Scout leadership that the troop leader admitted to assaulting 13 boys in the troop after parents came forward in June of 1975.Ī letter to the accused from Scout Executive Walter Johnson, dated June 24, 1975, states: "After careful review, we have decided that your registration with the Boy Scouts of America should be suspended.
He used a little cube of ice and rubbed it on my belly, thy (thigh) and once in a while on my penis while I was lying down."
"This was about 9 or 10 months ago at Whitewater. "Initiation consisted of me taking down my pants and off my shirt in front of the other boys, who told me he also did it to them," one 14-year-old boy wrote in June 1975. In this file, signed testimony from several Scouts details how an Elmhurst man, in his 20s at the time told the boys to lie down naked while the Scout leader rubbed ice on them. In Bensenville, the boys of Bensenville Moose Lodge Boy Scout Troop 444 were told they needed to get naked as part of their initiation into the Scouts. "This is precisely the type of information we need for our file," Boy Scouts Registration and Membership Supervisor Paul Ernst wrote of the clipping in April 1971, noting that such information "should help us in the future, should this individual ever again attempt to register in the scouting program." The newspaper clip in the file states that Farrell was sentenced to two years in prison. Gardner asking for "some concrete evidence of his antisocial behavior." Two months later, Krall got his concrete evidence in the form of a newspaper clipping recounting Farrell's conviction for "'taking indecent liberties' with two boys at a LaSalle County campground." 28, 1971, letter to Rainbow Council Scout Executive Alfred I. Krall, a director with the Boy Scouts, sent a Jan.
But three months after Farrell quit the Scouts, the BSA was reluctant to blacklist him, according to his file.Įarl L. A year into his duty with the Scouts, allegations arose that he molested boys in his care. In 1970, Patrick Farrell was a 40-year-old state prison guard, a Cubmaster with Cub Pack 239 and assistant Scoutmaster with Troop 239.
No longer confidential, here is a glimpse into the Boy Scouts of America "perversion files." Patch will continue to report on all Chicago-area files as they are opened to the public. Several letters in the files reveal Scout leadership's expressed intent to keep the reported sex crimes "confidential." While expelling suspected sexual predators from its ranks, the Boy Scouts also kept the abuse under wraps and failed to report some Scout leaders to the authorities. Charles, Wheaton and dozens of other Illinois communities. These are just four cases in the hundreds of Illinois files involving troops in Batavia, Chicago Heights, Downers Grove, Forest Park, Frankfort, Joliet, Naperville, Oak Lawn, Plainfield, St.
A boy from Troop 294 in Chicago was sexually assaulted three times during a single trip to a Naperville campground. In Oak Lawn, the Scout leader for Troop 1600 forced his boys to endure oral sex. In Bensenville, the boys in Troop 444 were forced to strip naked for their troop leader so he could rub ice cubes on their bodies. In Joliet, the boys of Troop 239 fell victim to a prison guard during a camping trip.