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The Boy Scouts’ ‘Perversion’ Files Detail Abuses, Convictions—And a Shocking Cover-Up

Scouts’ Dishonor

Over decades, the Boy Scouts kept secret files of more than 1,200 alleged and convicted pedophiles. When were they planning to tell anyone? Winston Ross on what the files show.

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The Boy Scouts of America’s so-called “perversion files” paint a disturbing portrait, both of an institution’s widespread cover-up of abuse spanning decades and of an era in which efforts to protect the innocent were often misguided.

The files, some 14,500 pages of which were released Thursday, comprise records of former Scout...

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