Thousands of US Boy Scout leaders accused of sexually abusing children
New York - Lawyers for dozens of sexually abused children on Tuesday released the names of 130 Boy Scout leaders in New York who have been accused of molesting boys in their care.
At a Manhattan news conference, the lawyers said the 130 scout leaders from New York City and the Hudson Valley [in the state New York] area are among 7 000 Boy Scout leaders across the country. "The alarming thing about this is not just the numbers," said Jeff Anderson, whose Manhattan law firm specializes in child sexual abuse cases. "The fact is that the Boy Scouts of America has never actually released these names in any form that can be known to the public. They may have removed them from scouting, they may have kept them in their perversion file but they never alerted the community.
"This is a real peril," Anderson said. "It's a systematic problem. These are perversion files and secrets held by the Boy Scouts of America."
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