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mo4ch:>Boy Scouts’ sealed ‘perversion files’ name 7,800+ suspected pedophiles – victims’ lawyer | Mo4ch News

Confidential “perversion files” held by the Boy Scouts of America contain the names of 7,819 suspected pedophiles, a lawyer for abused former scouts has discovered – and the names of 12,254 of their victims.“The alarming thing about this is not just the number but the fact is that the Boy Scouts of America has never actually released these names in any form that can be known to the public,” Jeff Anderson, a lawyer for ex-scouts who have been abused, told a press conference in New York.Also on rt.comSex abuse scandal-plagued Boy Scouts may declare bankruptcyAnderson is releasing 180 of those names – 130 men from New York and 50 from New Jersey. The list is incomplete, he says, but “we had to sound the alarm.” The Boy Scouts had been compiling these files since the 1940s, never sharing the names with authorities or the public, he said, denouncing the organization for what he called a “system of denial and coverups.”“Those ‘perversion files’ that they’ve had reflect that they have remove…