Boy Scouts' 'Perversion Files': 7,819 Alleged Sexual Abusers and 12,254 Alleged Victims
Dr. Janet Warren, a sex offender expert and professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, testified in a trial in Minnesota that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have files from 1944 through 2016 that list the names of 7,819 alleged sexual abusers and 12,254 alleged victims. These files are called the "Ineligible Volunteer Files" and the documents specifically on sexual misconduct are sometimes referred to as the "Perversion Files."
As Dr. Warren testified, she has been under contract for the last five years for the Boy Scouts to review those files, code them, and place them on the Internet. Many of the names of the alleged perpetrators -- not the alleged victims -- from the files have been released to the public through sexual abuse litigation.
In 2012, Oregon Judge John Wittmayer ordered that files from 1965 to 1985 -- some 1,247 entries -- be made public and posted online.
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