“There were violations after violation of basic safety rules with children,” says attorney Pat Maloney, who’s representing an 18-year-old San Antonio man suing the Boy Scouts for putting a now-convicted child molester in a position to target him. “You don’t allow a scoutmaster [like accused monster James Hiatt] to be one-on-one with a child. You don’t allow a scoutmaster to go out-of-state with a child, and you certainly don’t allow a scoutmaster to show pornography to a child, all of which was going on while he was a scoutmaster here.” Thank goodness the Scouts have that “no gays allowed” policy when it comes to scoutmasters! Otherwise the Boy Scouts could, like, totally claim what they really had was a homosexual predator problem and the only reasonable fix was to The Gays.
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DC Gay
I”m more upset over the temperature… 71!?? I haven’t seen 71 since…. Spring is coming I hope. And upset that a boy was molested… of course.
jack
re: the “no gays allowed” policy
How do they confirm this in the application process, a simple “yes” or “no”?
Francis
Very, very sad, and completely unsurprising. Boy Scouts are a breeding ground for pedophiles and other like minded perverts. Morally straight? Yeah, right.
matt
Surprise and SHOCK – the BSoA are the typical homophobic group where child molestors hide under the Christian term of straight married men… hmmmm
NovaNardis
@jack:
It’s a lot like DADT.
That said, this story is not about the abuse case. The molester was charged 3 years ago, convicted, and is serving a 60 year prison term.
This is a civil suit the man (now 18) is filing against BSA, claiming BSA knew they had a pedophile leader and did nothing about it. Having been a Boy Scout when I was younger, and understanding the background checks BSA asks its prospective leaders to submit to… I doubt this kid has anything to stand on, legally speaking. But maybe I’m wrong.
Also, all the quotes make this guy’s lawyer seem like a real douche.
Tessie Tura
@matt: Actually, Scouting was FOUNDED by a pedophile. Baden-Powell founded the organization so he could be surrounded by young boys, and often invited his pedo friends to attend swimming parties, where skinny-dipping often occurred.
Oprah
60 years in prison for touching a teenage boy? The victim getting millions in moneytary compesation? I wish someone hard touched me. 🙁
Gary Barbosa-Strickland
When will they learn most molestersare straight men! Nomatter if the victim is male or female more than likely the molester is STRAIGHT !