Boy Scout executive says parents are at fault in abuse cases

As reported by the AP (4/1), the Portland metro area Boy Scout Council president has stated that he feels the parents of some abused scouts were negligent, perhaps even criminally so, for allowing sleepovers that led to the abuse. In a $29 million sex abuse lawsuit, the president told the jury that parents were wrong to allow their children to stay overnight with a single man at his apartment. The man has admitted to molesting the plaintiff, and has already been convicted of other sex abuse in the 1980s, when he was an assistant scoutmaster.