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Burnsville troop leader charged with molesting scouts

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A 44-year-old former Boy Scout leader from Burnsville has been charged with molesting three scouts in his troop, including at least one who may have been as young as 11 years old at the time of the abuse.

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Mongo

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Now maybe some of you can see why we didn't want to allow homosexuals to become troop leaders.
BARRY WATSON

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If he is found guilty he should be put to death. Unfortunately MN likes to rehabilitate these types of people.
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Why do "parents" continue to allow their children to spend time alone with Scout Leaders, coaches, priests, etc.
This happens way too often.

Stop dumping your kids off on these sick bastards and be an active parent.
Theresa

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Ditto on everything above. It's said when even scouting isn't safe anymore. Pretty soon, it will be a thing of the past.This just makes me sick!

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Mpls

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Big Al wrote:
Why do "parents" continue to allow their children to spend time alone with Scout Leaders, coaches, priests, etc.
This happens way too often.
Stop dumping your kids off on these sick bastards and be an active parent.
I think scout leaders and priests need to answer if they are gay or not. This children need our protection from these deviant sinful homosexuals.
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Doesn't the BSA do any kind of screening?
BKIV

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So if this was a female scout leader, you would be ok with it?! The issue isn't homosexual vs. straight. The issue is an adult abusing young children... homosexual, straight... doesn't matter. DON'T ABUSE THE KIDS.
Minnesota Mark

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Dear Mongo, a pediophile is no more a homosexual than your mom is a prostitute. Pediophiles are not human and should be eliminated from society just as Barry Watson suggests.

Parents do dump and run way to much. They use these "activites" as a way to get away from being a parent. I know, I've been a scout leader and sunday school teacher most parents drop of their kids and go to a movie, dinner with mom, or to the bar for a couple of beers with the boys.

Scout rules are very strick on the two deep leadership. There was an obvious lapse on the part of the troop committee and the charter organization to monitor this key principal of scouter conduct.

Scouting is still safe. One apple does NOT spoil the bushel. Don't quit on the kids. Get involved.
Citizen in Saint Paul

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Mongo, Theresa, Tank,

You are all so ignorant! Grow up and get the facts!

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Citizen in Saint Paul wrote:
Mongo, Theresa, Tank,
You are all so ignorant! Grow up and get the facts!
You won't correct this problem until you ask the tough questions,

"are you gay" "are you attracted to young children"

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Saint Paul, MN

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Gee...looking at his picture, who would think he was a molester...
Randy

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Citizen in Saint Paul wrote:
Mongo, Theresa, Tank,
You are all so ignorant! Grow up and get the facts!
Ok Mr. Citizen, what are the facts? Do you have more to add? If this is all you have to offer as far as a post , maybe you can hold off until you have something with a little more substance.
Slim Shady

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why doe these accusers wait so long to come forward,I think it would be better and more creditable if they did,I am not saying it didn't happen but years later as the individual keeps doing what they were doing thinking they got away with it and they can do it again
Mr Z

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It's funny every time they show a picture of these guys they always look like the biggest creepers but parents still let there kids go hang out with them. On looks alone I wouldn't let my kids near this molester.
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Big Al wrote:
Why do "parents" continue to allow their children to spend time alone with Scout Leaders, coaches, priests, etc.
This happens way too often.
Stop dumping your kids off on these sick bastards and be an active parent.
There's been more reports of female school teachers having sex with students than of boy scout leaders molesting scouts. Maybe we should keep our kids home from school too?
Vikings Fan

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Mongo wrote:
Now maybe some of you can see why we didn't want to allow homosexuals to become troop leaders.
You are right! United Way of Olmsted County is finding out that withholding charitible funds from Boy Scout Troops because they "don't" allow gay scout leaders backfired on them. They lost a lot of monetary contributions for this politically correct policy. A very good way to speak with your pocketbook!
Christy NE Mpls

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We need to respect all people even the child molesters, that way we have tolerance and co-exist.

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To say he's gay is to focus on the wrong thing -- the guy is a molester and therefore dangerous. I'm not trying to be overly picky, I just want to focus on the thing that really matters: Preventing molesters from having access to our kids.

Most child molesters cannot be meaningfully described as homosexuals, heterosexuals, or bisexuals (in the usual sense of those terms) because they are not really capable of a relationship with an adult man or woman. Instead of gender, their sexual attractions are based primarily on age. These individuals – who are often characterized as fixated – are attracted to children, not to men or women."

Here's some of the research:
"Using the fixated-regressed distinction, Groth and Birnbaum (1978) studied 175 adult males who were convicted in Massachusetts of sexual assault against a child. None of the men had an exclusively homosexual adult sexual orientation. 83 (47%) were classified as "fixated;" 70 others (40%) were classified as regressed adult heterosexuals; the remaining 22 (13%) were classified as regressed adult bisexuals. Of the last group, Groth and Birnbaum observed that "in their adult relationships they engaged in sex on occasion with men as well as with women. However, in no case did this attraction to men exceed their preference for women....There were no men who were primarily sexually attracted to other adult males..." (p.180).

"Other researchers have taken different approaches, but have similarly failed to find a connection between homosexuality and child molestation. Dr. Carole Jenny and her colleagues reviewed 352 medical charts, representing all of the sexually abused children seen in the emergency room or child abuse clinic of a Denver children's hospital during a one-year period (from July 1, 1991 to June 30, 1992). The molester was a gay or lesbian adult in fewer than 1% in which an adult molester could be identified – only 2 of the 269 cases (Jenny et al., 1994). " See: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/HTML/fa...
Ray Ban

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Tank Murdoch wrote:
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You won't correct this problem until you ask the tough questions,
"are you gay" "are you attracted to young children"
Of course they will answer honestly, tool.
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Looks like any other white guy on the streets!

Creepy guys aren't they?
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