By Tom Henderson
Sep 13th 2010 1:00PM
The guy who lives down the street next to the playground is a pervert who likes to fondle young boys. You know it. You even investigated him to make absolutely sure.
You compiled everything you learned -- and it's some pretty damning stuff -- in a massive file. The police would love to take a look at it.
Sorry. You only use that file to protect your own kids. Other kids just have to take their chances.
Multiply that scenario by the untold thousands, and you get a sense why some people are miffed at the Boy Scouts of America.
As scout leaders have checked out potential volunteers and responded to complaints over the past 90 years, they've uncovered some unsavory secrets. They have identified perverts, thieves and assorted (or sordid) other people unfit to be around kids.
Critics say these files, if made available to law enforcement and other agencies, would provide an invaluable cross-referencing and research tool.
Scout leaders, however, say the files are strictly confidential.
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Kenneth V. Lanning, a retired FBI agent who specializes in crimes against children, tells the Dallas Morning News he resigned from a scouting expert advisory panel after 10 years.
Lanning said in his resignation letters that the scouts' national leadership "fails to convey an adequate understanding and recognition of the problem of the sexual exploitation of children."
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