
Part One: Robert Baden-Powell: Founder Of The Boy Scouts
Behind the Bastards
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The Modern BSA
The founder of the Boy Scouts would die in 1941, but the patterns he established would follow the organization as it aged. This is not a case of a man founding a beautiful organization that later people fail on from the beginning. Everything problematic that has led to mass sexual assaults in the Boy Scouts was present from its founding. They are in brief and avowed refusal to properly check the men who volunteer to watch over boys,. A willingness to overlook problematic behavior, and a commitment to hiding the cases of abuse that they are forced to acknowledge.
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