Boy Scouts Pay Out Nearly A Billion For 60,000 Sex Abuse Victims And Almost No αrrєѕтs Were Made
Published: July 8, 2021
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Just because it is considered a boys club does not mean the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is unprofitable. In fact, their assets topped over a billion dollars. Some might conclude it is long overdue but on Thursday of last week, the billionaire boys club announced it has finally agreed to pay for all the decades of child sɛҳuąƖ abuse its members have inflicted on unsuspecting young boys, usually at the hands of the club’s leaders. In an historic settlement with victims, the Boy Scouts of America will be paying out $850 million dollars to the abused.

While that figure will substantially diminish the club’s net worth, unfortunately, because the victims are so numerous, the $850 million will amount to between three and five thousand dollars per victim, the equivalent to a month and a half’s earnings at minimum wage, a proverbial drop in the bucket. Undoubtedly, the settlement will feel like a slap in the face to those children, many of whom are now adults, who have lost their innocence to predators and the organization which allegedly protected such pedophiles.
According to NPR, it is the first time the organization has ever paid out any settlement for any lawsuit to which it has been named a party, and there are several.

The agreement, announced on Thursday, is the first legal settlement in a long list of lawsuits against the Boy Scouts, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February 2020.

Ken Rothweiler, one of the chief negotiators in the settlement called it, “the largest settlement of sɛҳuąƖ abuse claims in United States history.”
The organization is relying on its local councils to pay at least $300 million, and the parent organization will also pay for things like “non-monetary commitments to abuse victims, including youth protection measures, a reporting system, formation of a Child Protection Committee, and information sharing related to abuse claims,” according to NPR.
Rothweiler’s law firm represents over 16,000 abuse victims dating back to the 1940’s, whose predators were catalogued in an internal list called the “perversion files”. Rothweiler, along with Tim Kosnoff, partnered to form the group known as Abused in Scouting to bring awareness to the thousands upon thousands of victims encouraging them to come forward. Kosnoff is now livid at the agreed upon settlement, according to NPR which quoted Kosnoff as saying:

I don’t know how you can characterize this as anything but a failure…I would say it is a nonstarter, and if my clients asked me if I thought it was a good deal for them I would say no…You’re talking about clients who, in some cases, were anally raped for years that are now supposed to get payouts of $3,500 … maybe $5,000…That is an insult to all of the men who found the courage to file claims and participated in this process.

For its part the BSA believes the payouts are fair. In a statement they proclaim:

This agreement ensures that we have the overwhelming support of survivors for the BSA’s proposed Plan of Reorganization, which is a key step in the BSA’s path toward emerging from bankruptcy. Bringing these groups together marks a significant milestone and is the biggest step forward to date as the BSA works toward our dual imperatives of equitably compensating survivors of abuse and preserving the mission of Scouting.

It is unclear if the presiding judge will accept the offer made by the BSA. Hopefully they will be able to see how very little money victims are getting in exchange for having their sɛҳuąƖ innocence ripped away and do the right thing. The burden of the payout should not have to come from the participants in the local councils but from the organization itself in our humble opinion, and the payouts need to be ten to twenty times higher at least.
On top of the insultingly low payout, another kick in the teeth to the thousands of victims is the fact that there have been almost no αrrєѕтs. This detail seems to be something the mainstream outlets are refusing to acknowledge. Over the decades of abuse, the Boy Scouts, and only a handful of troop leaders have been αrrєѕтed for their crimes. A travesty indeed.
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The Catholic Church before Vatican 2 forbidden any Catholic Boy to join the Boys Scouts because it's founders were Freemasons.
The Catholic version of the Boy Scouts was called "Ad Altare Dei". The Boy had be to Altar Boys, and in good standing., and go to
confession and communion at lease once a month.

This is not accurate.  I've known several Catholic boys involved with scouting all through the 1950's-60's and many troops were, and are, sponsored by parish organizations, especially the Knights of Columbus.

Within the Boy Scout Merit Badge program there is a badge that can earned by scouts of particular religious faiths after fulfilling the requirements set by their church.  The Catholic Scouting merit badge is called Ad Altare Dei.

http://catholicscouting.org/ provides some useful factual information, including the Popes on Scouting  http://catholicscouting.org/ICCS_History/Popes/popes.htm, beginning with Pope Pius XI.

Some additional research seems to show that Lord Baden-Powell's wife, as well as Masonic sources, deny that he was part of that organization.

I was never a member of the Boy Scouts and may even have reservations about the organization today.  However, the truth is always important and what is in the quote box is simply not true.

Just goes to show you, even if you restrict yourself to conservative, alternative sources of news and information, you will end up with SOME errors. Perhaps not malicious, but errors nonetheless. Sometimes these sources exaggerate to sell papers (as it were). They promote sensationalism, fear, etc. in the right-wing. So you have to be discerning and often do your own verification and research. Sometimes a quick common sense check isn't enough to inoculate you against believing the error.

For example, if an alt news site said Pope Francis said some heretical thing. Most of us would believe it -- and for good reason! But it might nevertheless be false. That would require actual verification to expose the falsehood. A quick common-sense sanity check "Pope Francis would NEVER say something heretical like that!" doesn't work, for obvious reasons.

For example, if an alt news site said Pope Francis said some heretical thing. Most of us would believe it -- and for good reason! But it might nevertheless be false. That would require actual verification to expose the falsehood. A quick common-sense sanity check "Pope Francis would NEVER say something heretical like that!" doesn't work, for obvious reasons.

I agree. On a related note, even though I don't believe he's a legitimate Pope, I've noticed a severe lack of charity among trads towards Bergoglio mostly through presumption for precisely the reason you note. I have not been perfect about this, but have become more conscious of how it is important not to ruin another's good name through detraction thanks to some threads on here recently. We still need to remember to look at the evidence before drawing a conclusion about any one, even Bergoglio. I certainly know I need to do this more.

I agree. On a related note, even though I don't believe he's a legitimate Pope, I've noticed a severe lack of charity among trads towards Bergoglio mostly through presumption for precisely the reason you note. I have not been perfect about this, but have become more conscious of how it is important not to ruin another's good name through detraction thanks to some threads on here recently. We still need to remember to look at the evidence before drawing a conclusion about any one, even Bergoglio. I certainly know I need to do this more.

Ditto.  I don't think he is legitimate, but I have been doing a lot of soul searching this week, preparing for Confession and Mass tomorrow, and realize how reckless with my tongue (fingers on keyboard) I have been, and that my anger does not, cannot, satisfy God's justice.  I have found that I have allowed my outrage and disgust and hatred for all that is assaulting everything that I love to blind me to the fact that Jesus desires not our enemies' destruction but their salvation.  In the midst of condemning others, I have failed to take good inventory of myself, and have failed to be able to say with Jesus from the Cross, "Forgive them Father, for they do not know what they do," or as St. Paul puts it in 1 Cor. 2:8 "for if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory."  I've also noticed that raging against the evil, produces in me the same ʀɛʋօʟutιօnary spirit that we experience from the Jєωs: forgetting that we have here no earthly home and therefore seeking to build a kingdom, a utopia here in this world, a world that with its desires is passing away (cf. 1 John 2:17).

My father made Eagle Scout in the Catholic Boy Scouts in about 1939 or 1940.  There were requirements about serving Mass, Confession, Communion, and hearing Mass a certain number of weekdays.  If he’d ever had a bad experience, I’m quite certain he’d have not let his grandson join.  
My nephew also made Eagle Scout in 2010, before they gave in to the trans agenda, allowing girls tand changing their name to just “scouts.”  If anyone had messed with him, it would not have gone unpunished.  
I’m wondering if the Girl Scouts still exists as a club just for girls, not for Boy Scouts who want to be girls?  I was in Jr. Girl Scouts and before that, Brownies.  Later, though, in middle school, I joined 4-H because the group I was in did farming at a county run model farm.  Someone told me 4-H was Masonic?  If it is, there was never anything off that I can recall.  I went to 4-H summer camp for two weeks two years in a row, and liked it much better than Girl Scout camp.  We did actual camping and outdoor activities like tenting, canoeing, orienteering, horseback riding, outdoor cookery, swimming, etc.  Girl Scouts was more focused on socializing, indoor crafts, and their presentation to groups, ie.ladylike public speaking.  
Was there a Catholic Girl Scouts as well?