Robert Baden Powell and the History of Scouting

There's no evidence or even allegations whatsoever that Robert Baden Powell himself assaulted any boys. He encouraged those young boys to go to their scoutmasters to discuss sex, nakedness, and masturbation. A not insignificant number of those men turned out to be child molesters. Even if he had cared, I'm sure it would have fallen short. It was inevitable. In a town of 7 million people, some of the adults will molest children. That doesn't mean the organization's evil. What is evil is the way that they deal with it or fail to deal with it.