Facing up to the facts.....

How responsible is an organization for the people that represent it unfavorably?

Front newspaper headlines..."Boy Scouts Verdit opens door"....the jury awarded the boy whom had ran into an pedophile in the Scotting program at entry level, with an 1.4 million dollar court win....so now this kid can not say, that no one paid any "attention" to him or his case finally....and if he says he is now an social "deviate" from the expereince, he's been awarded enough money to be one rich dude the rest of his life...assuming he uses it wisely. Money can not though justify an act like this. I am assuming he "sued" because he wants people to think of him as "telling the truth" in the past as to what happened to him...and now he can "move on" so as to say...h ego this day in court.  But the Latter-Day Saints church is also involved, and they paid off years ago (quietly) and the Scout local chapter which gets to pay 15 per cent of the case winnings...if they have it...and the national board also. Of course the thing behind the headlines is how many others might get the notion to file for "abuse" when it was not perhaps as graphic and clear cut as was this one. 30 years ago this man WAS prosecuted and sent to prison by law enforcement as an child pedophile...he is now out and living on the streets of downtown Portland as an transit. So I have no idea what this court case was over..other then twisting the arm of the Scouts money-wise to say it happened...and snooping through their private files. Unlike the Catholic Church....the Scouts threw this guy out of their organization when it first surfaced at an higher local board of Scoutting many years ago...right now they are saying they are going to "appeal", I think perhaps in order to keep their private files on people as "private". There are 2.8 million Boy Scouts and 1.1 million registered adult leaders in Scoutting. I know in our area this specific Scout Council has 325,000 boy scouts locally. I wonder where were the parents at when this was going on, I wonder, but know, why the usual scout "buddy type system" for camp-outs was not followed, maybe it was for this dude to be an "diviate" to the kids..since he was the local leader of the troop..though we have four or five of them these days. Usually we ask our "eagle scouts" to come back an year or so afterward if they can... to help the younger boys in such situation of camp-outs as "assistants"...or at least our troop does.  It takes time to find the baddies out and deal with them, and they can do an lot of damage by then....so how repsonsible should the organizations be...should they say, no parent along, no camp-outs?  It is already an problem with divorced parents with kids many times...they can't be everywhere all the time. Scouts is for boys ayway...to learn and meet other kids their own age..not an family situation...where babies in diapers and toddlers and such are brought to the camp-outs and to do the "hiking".... so how do they protect themselves from the socially ill in society ?  How responsible should they "pay off" in being.... when another crosses the line in thier actions? They are not the only social organization right now with this problem..it covers schools, churches, health clinics, and  all social organizations these days. How do we make them "safer"?