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Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy after a flood of sex abuse cases, reports of declining membership, & legal battles with insurance companies.

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35 comments

  1. This is just sickening, disgusting, and heartbreaking! Are there any victims from the GIRL SCOUTS organization? How many years does it take the FEDS to close a case for Christ’s sake….now I’m torn about buying cookies this year….just awful☹️

    1. It’s a shame all the years probably all the decades they had to get rid of this scum bags in their organization and for them to do it themselves and to protect the children but they did not…. I guess the boards of directors over the years just wanted the problem to go away by sweeping it under the rug rather than being proactive….. and that’s really a shame it’s come down to this and there’s a lot of good kids who need their services and would have benefited and a lot of people who were good Scouts leaders . It’s a shame for the kids especially .

  2. Well they could have avoided all this I’ll betcha…. when people are complaining to them about somebody molesting their kid where they were hearing rumors and stories from other kids they probably had plenty of opportunity to look into it themselves and ditch the ones they knew they had to get rid of in order to protect the children and the organization…. so now a lot of kids who would have benefited from this organization will do without it and that is really a shame …. a lot of good things came out of it …. why the hell didn’t they do the right thing ?
    It’s a shame when people just want to cover up the truth rather than doing something about it when they have the chance…. shame on those people and the boards of directors over the years you could have done something and made a difference . Obviously they just really didn’t care and only wanted to enjoy the status of being a big name ….. but look at them now .

    1. Church and boy scouts won’t say one thing , “GAY” , millions of victims and we count the female victims with the fingers on one hand

    1. @Green Bastard “Green Bastard”, I presume you learned you earned your persona and nom de plume in the Boy Scouts. You prove my point! Thanks!

  3. *insert Russell Peters dad voice… “somebody gonna get hurt real bad'” *
    …SOMEbody is gonna get a pardon. Well, maybe the big orange fella could bail them out (waiting for the plea on Fox and Friends) with some of his billions? Boy scouts? Good cause? Any billionaire? Anyone? *crickets*

  4. When they were a religious based organization for BOYS ONLY they were booming.
    ……..
    Once they lowered their standards and admitted gay scout leaders and girls they were doomed.

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