“Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America” is a blistering exposé made all the more powerful by victims’ agonizing and courageous commentary.
Considering the Boy Scouts of America’s deep ties to religion, as well as the fact that it’s an organization that places young children in the care of adult men, it’s no great shock that—like the Catholic Church—its history is rife with child sex abuse and attendant cover-ups.
Director Brian Knappenberger’s gripping Netflix documentary focuses on the “Ineligible Volunteer Files,” which the Boy Scouts alternately referred to over the years as the “Perversion Files” and the “Confidential Files”—the latter because these write-ups had to be kept secret from members, families, and law enforcement.
This is likely true. Nonetheless, it’s no excuse for suppressing this information and, consequently, allowing offenders to continue doing what they wanted with as many adolescent boys as possible. Even when they hired Michael Johnson, a former Plano, Texas-based detective as their national youth protection director, they were apparently unwilling to take necessary steps to stymie this plague.
As attorney Tim Kosnoff bluntly states, what went on at the Boy Scouts over decades was “nothing less than an atrocity,” anddetails it via interviews with advocates, lawyers, and some of the myriad victims of abuse.
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