Three men gave graphic testimony in a Morristown, New Jersey Court on Monday, alleging they were sexually abused by former Morris County Boy Scout leader, Stephen Corcoran (pictured), when they were teenagers.
The first alleged victim testified that his abuse began in the 1990s when he was just 10. One day, Corcoran invited him over to his house. When he got there, the Scout leader offered him a beer then showed him pornography on his computer.
“This is what kids do in Europe,” Corcoran allegedly said. “It’s okay.”
The alleged victim told the court that the abuse continued for seven more years, often late at night during overnight camping trips. Corcoran would lead him to dark, secluded locations — including the woods along the banks of the Delaware River, on top of a boat at West Point, and in a hotel room whilst on a ski trip to Vermont — then offer him alcohol and engage in sex acts with the boy.
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A second alleged victim testified that his abuse began when he was 13. He was invited over to Corcoran’s house to work on a merit badge. While there, the Scout leader showed him pornography. The first time, the man said, Corcoran didn’t touch him. But the second time, he performed oral sex on him. The man testified that he never told anybody about the abuse because he was afraid “They’d think I was gay or stupid for masturbating with a Scout leader.”
A third alleged victim told the court his sexual activities with Corcoran began in 1999 when he was 17. One day he asked Corcoran to help fix his computer. Corcoran noticed that he had gay porn stored on it.
“Nobody knew I was gay yet,” the man testified. “He reassured me it was okay. He said ‘it’s okay if you’re bisexual. I’m bisexual too.’ ”
Then, he said, Corcoran unzipped his pants and began pleasuring himself.
A few months later, Corcoran invited him over to his house for “a few drinks” and a threesome with another boy.
“That freaked me out,” he said.
The man described the experience as “frightening,” and “very naughty,” but admitted that he also kind of enjoyed it.
After he turned 18, the alleged victim testified, he continued having sex with Corcoran and even invited him to several of his birthday parties until well into his late 20s. He said he agreed to testify against him because he believes this sort of things happens much more often than is reported within the Boy Scouts of America organization.
“It’s clear that this is a widespread thing that’s happening,” the man said.
Corcoran now faces four counts of aggravated sexual assault and five counts of sexual assault, along with 11 counts of child endangerment.
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asa1973
Why is news about pedophiles considered gay news??
Dawson
And the 3rd guy still had sex with him and younger boys and he is concerned this thing is still happening? Ahhhh, aren’t you one of them too since you continued to have sex with him after you turned 17 and he was still a boy scout leader? Seems to me that he should be going to jail too.
Mr.Tim
@asa1973: That’s like asking “Why is news about post operative trans persons gay new?? There are many different people in LGBT community, some of whom are pederasts. if I gay man kills his lover, he’s still gay, his crime is murder. That what makes this “gay” news.
Mr.Tim
@Dawson: Nowhere did the 3rd guy say he was having sex with underage boys after he turned 18. He only stated he continued having relations with Corcoran.
JustaThought
17 with gay porn on his computer and the big bad man sexually assaulted him? Oh the poor little muffin.
I (for the record) HATE the thought of a man stealing a childs innocence and that man should be put to death in a painful way.
With that said, lets be real here. 17 is not an innocent flower who just happened to have gay porn on his computer.
Mr.Tim
@JustaThought: Funny, you got thru making this statement > “I am 48 years old…
I first had sex with a man (found through newspaper adds) when I was 12 (circa 1970s-1980s).” about http://www.queerty.com/naughty-teacher-convicted-of-hooking-up-with-14-year-old-schoolboy-20140916
and now you’re advocating that the death penalty should be applied to men such as the one you had sex with when you were 12?
seaguy
@asa1973: Exactly this perpetuates the idea that all gay men and child molesters.
DonW
@Mr.Tim: I guarantee you this p.o.s. never considered himself part of the LGBT community, but most likely presented himself publicly as a heterosexual. Homophobes will no doubt use this and similar stories as justification for maintaining the ban on gay adult Scout leaders. But in fact they are the last ones to worry about. Watch out for the upstanding straight family men.
Saint Law
That’s a very…graphic photo.
Billy Budd
Pedophilia is ALWAYS present in this kind of organization. Please read about gays in the Wandervogel and Hitler Youth.
Billy Budd
It is the same thing as in a prison or in the navy. When you put men together and isolated, they will have sex. And the scouts organization is a perfect place for pedophiles, because it offers both repectability and a wide variety of kids to be chosen as prey.
David
A sad side bar to this story is just how ridiculous the current. BSA policy on Adult membership by Gays and Lesbians actually is. This child rapist knew exactly what he was doing. It is sickos like this guy living sad twisted lives in the closet that are the threat to youth in the BSA, they seek out places where they can hide in plain sight. Places where there are no normal out Gays and Lesbians.
The other Adult leaders of the troop bear responsibility for this as well, as the. BSA has VERY CLEAR rules that prohibit any one to one unsupervised interaction between youth and adults. At least TWO adults are always required for any scouting activity. All youth and adults in the troop should have been trained on that rule. SO the first time this freak tried to invite a scout over to his house alone the kid would have known to say no.
By leaving. Scouting as a place where out LGBT men and women are banned, the Message being sent to kids in scouting is that Gay adults are creepy liars who are waiting to lure you into dark corners and abuse you, and if you are gay, that is the life that awaits you.
It’s time to stop allowing the BSA to be a safe place for paedophiles to hide. It time to allow OUT Gays of Lesbians who are living open and honest lives of honour and integrity to be in Scouting.
Clearly. The heterosexuals in Scouting are failing to protect kids, because Scouting by its institutionalized homophobia, as an organization is enabling those who wish to harm kids to remain hidden in plain sight. Until that changes. Scouting is not safe place for any youth, gay or straight.
gaym50ish
The Family Research Council claims that if gay adults are allowed in scouting, there will be more boys at risk of being molested. But we know that the policy of excluding gays hasn’t prevented the abuse in the past.
When the secret files on sex abusers within the Boy Scouts from 1965 to 1985 were released and published online, there were 1,247 names on the list. Each abuser had molested, on average, more than one Boy Scout. The ban on gays did not, and cannot, keep out molesters — only vigilance can do that, in any institution.
gaym50ish
And, I might add, keeping those files secret for so many years should have been considered a crime.
enlightenone
Third guy NOT a victim! So is the pervert in jail or wearing an ankle monitor or/and registered as a sex offender, still a scout “leader” – like the priest in the church?
enlightenone
@Billy Budd: Navy?
Bob LaBlah
Why is it one never hears about things like this happening in Europe?
Roan
Of course, cue the usual cadre of QUEERTY comments that give a pass to sexual acts committed with a barely not legal teen.
stranded
@JustaThought: I don’t think you’re reading the guys intention very well. He admitted to carrying on a relationship with Corcoran, for him it wasn’t molestation to the degree as it was for the others, but being as he was underage and he seeing the allegations brought on by other men who were actually molested, he’s volunteering his testimony as a way of showing Corcoran has a history with sexually pursuing minors.
DonW
@Bob LaBlah: Umm, you mean, like, the culture of systematic buggery of “new boys” in British boarding schools, the legacy of rape in Irish Catholic institutions, the German pedophile priests shielded by future-pope Ratzinger, the Austrian basements where girls have been discovered after being raped and impregnated for decades, or the (justified) quip from the movie “In Bruges”: “What’s Belgium famous for? Chocolates and child abuse — and they only invented the chocolates to get to the kids.”
All just the tip of the iceberg. So, yeah, Europe is just as pristine as a Swiss glacier in the matter of child sexual abuse. As if.
PARKAVMAN
This POS must present himself as straight to continue as a scout leader. He probably is straight and a pedophile. It bothers me that the third guy continued a relationship with him. They both need counseling and the older guy needs jail. I think this shows there are more pedophiles trying to be in scouts for access to young guys.
mr_jbrown
While half of you idiots were tripping over yourselves trying to figure out excuses for defending this guy, you must’ve glossed over the fact that one of the victims was 10 when this started. This scumbag is trying to set us back another 20 years on the BSA issue and some of you are trying to narrow down which one of his victims might’ve actually enjoyed it.
We understand that there are some of you that are attracted to kids and you can’t help it. But guess what? You don’t get to join young boy groups and start trying to fuck em, got it?! I’m sick of these fucking pigs thinking they’ll just get away with it while half the community does mental backflips convincing themselves that this guy is just misunderstood or setup.
Sorry pal, you like touching little kids? Yeah we don’t do that here. Go fap in your basement until the tears dry up.
BStewart27
@gaym50ish: Any idea where the abuse files can be found on-line? I’ve been trying to track down the name of an Explorer post leader on Nantucket who molested me at 14. FWIW, when you’re underage, gay and a virgin, abuse is especially damaging.
BStewart27
Any idea where the abuse files can be found on-line? I’ve been trying to track down the name of an Explorer post leader on Nantucket who molested me at 14. FWIW, when you’re underage, gay and a virgin, abuse is especially damaging.