Scouting abuse - Mormon Church getting tarnished...

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Scouting abuse - Mormon Church getting tarnished...

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The lawyers highlighted a 2010 court case, in which an assistant scoutmaster in a Mormon Church-sponsored troop sexually molested a boy in the 1980s.

The abuser involved had previously confessed to molesting 17 other boys in the troop, but was allowed to return to scouting within a few months and then found a new victim.

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Re: Scouting abuse - Mormon Church getting tarnished...

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After they are done reviewing the Perversion File I expect the percentage of abuse by Mormon Scout leaders to be in the same range as the non Mormon leaders. Remember we are "just like everyone else".
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
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