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Boy Scout Files Give Glimpse into 20 Years of Sex Abuse
Kirk Johnson – The New York Times, 22 Oct 2012

Details of decades of sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts of America, and what child welfare experts say was a corrosive culture of secrecy that compounded the damage, were cast into full public view for the first time on Thursday [18 Oct 2012] with the release of thousands of pages of documents describing abuse accusations across the country. “The secrets are out,” said Kelly Clark, a lawyer whose firm obtained the files as evidence in an $18.5 million civil judgment against the Scouts in 2010.

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