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SELLING BOYS For CASH_ The BOY SCOUTS SCANDAL · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: For over one hundred years, the Boy Scouts of America
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  Speaker 1: have covered up some of the deepest, darkest crimes against
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  Speaker 1: children imaginable. And in today's story, we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: discussing a ring that was operating within the Boy Scouts,
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  Speaker 1: connected to an international group of that we're on young
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  Speaker 1: boys producing and even potentially films. Today's episode is going
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  Speaker 1: to be incredibly disturbing as always. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's ever been a happy episode of this show,
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  Speaker 1: but I do like to warn people that viewer and
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  Speaker 1: through some graphic details and explaining this thing very very clearly,
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  Speaker 1: so you know the names of the you know the
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  Speaker 1: names of the victims, and you see just how all
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  Speaker 1: these people got away. The injustice in this case is staggering.
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  Speaker 1: into today's story. So I remember being a kid and
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  Speaker 1: I was actually in boy Scouts for a couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: My big thing really was going to like a summer
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  Speaker 1: camp that was in Siu Fall, South Dakota where I'm from,
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  Speaker 1: called leif Erickson. And it wasn't like boy Scouts, but
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  Speaker 1: it was like kids going all summer hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: adults doing outdoor recreational activities. I believe I went eleven
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  Speaker 1: years in a row. They gave you an award like
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  Speaker 1: after every year that you went, and I know that
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  Speaker 1: I got the highest award for like going the most
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  Speaker 1: amount of years that you can go. So that was fun.
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  Speaker 1: But when I was in Boy Scouts, even back then,
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  Speaker 1: I remember just getting kind of a weird vibe around
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  Speaker 1: some of the troop leaders. To me, it's something that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of weird. I mean, like, I know that if
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  Speaker 1: you're a Boy Scout and you've enjoyed Boy Scouts, that's
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  Speaker 1: totally great, and I commend you for, you know, doing
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  Speaker 1: what you've done with your life. I've actually been really
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  Speaker 1: good friends with a couple of people that were Eagle Scouts,
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  Speaker 1: so I know how positive and beneficial being a Boy
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  Speaker 1: Scout can be for your life. So I'm not like
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  Speaker 1: talking bad about people that have been Boy Scouts or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that. I just want to state like the
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  Speaker 1: concept of like grown men taking children into the woods
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  Speaker 1: is just like odd, and especially when I've done all
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  Speaker 1: this research for years about these organized in America, I
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  Speaker 1: mean that just seems like something that would be a
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  Speaker 1: magnet for like, hey, here's a group of ten eight
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  Speaker 1: year old boys. You can take out into a forest
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  Speaker 1: with you and no one's going to be around to
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  Speaker 1: watch what you do. When you consider it with that
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  Speaker 1: kind of subtext, the statistics of I have to censor
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  Speaker 1: myself on here that have been involved with this organization,
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  Speaker 1: it starts to make more sense. But today's episode is
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  Speaker 1: going to connect a lot of dots. This is not
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  Speaker 1: just a ring that was on its own in the
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  Speaker 1: Boy Scouts. It was connected to a massive, transnational, multinational
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  Speaker 1: organization made up of all these loose, interconnected organizations of
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  Speaker 1: film producers and even film producers. Yeah, this is dark,
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  Speaker 1: but this knowledge needs to be mainstream and people need
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  Speaker 1: to know this sort of thing because it's real. It's
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  Speaker 1: very real, continues to happen all the time, every day
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  Speaker 1: across the world. I'm sure while I'm recording this video,
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  Speaker 1: multiple children are going to be a dozen, maybe twenty
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  Speaker 1: fifty across the planet, maybe even one hundred. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: more than that. And that's a staggering, disturbing fact. But
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  Speaker 1: what can we do to fight that sort of thing?
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  Speaker 1: We can teach people and we can learn about these
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  Speaker 1: things so you can recognize the red flags, the warning
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  Speaker 1: signs and the perpetrators. We can hopefully get people enough
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  Speaker 1: that these perpetrators are actually held accountable for their crimes.
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  Speaker 1: As always, though, if you want to research this story further,
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  Speaker 1: you can use the resources document in the show description,
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  Speaker 1: which I publish with every episode. All parties are presumed
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  Speaker 1: innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. And no,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to do anything to myself. I always
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  Speaker 1: say this. People make fun of me. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people that can do something to me at this point,
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  Speaker 1: but if something does happen to me, I just want
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  Speaker 1: you to know it wasn't me. But let's get into this.
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  Speaker 1: On September six, twenty twenty, Netflix alarmed the world when
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  Speaker 1: they released a new documentary titled Scouts Honor the Secret
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  Speaker 1: Files of the Boy Scouts of America, which revealed staggering
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  Speaker 1: details of the corruption within the Boy Scouts of America,
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  Speaker 1: commonly known as Boy Scouts. Boy Scouts, which is now
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  Speaker 1: undergoing federal bankruptcy proceedings, is an all boys establishment that
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  Speaker 1: was founded in the United States on February eighth, nineteen ten,
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  Speaker 1: to help young people prepare for life and become young leaders.
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  Speaker 1: It's a club of young boys supervised and taught by
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  Speaker 1: men who do a lot of different things together like
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  Speaker 1: community service, camping trips, swimming, camping, fishing, sports, science projects,
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  Speaker 1: and other fun activities. The Boy Scouts contain what they
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  Speaker 1: call troops. Troops are made of patrols, which are a
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  Speaker 1: close team of five tape members in the same community.
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  Speaker 1: The uniformed adult leader is called the Scout Master, who
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  Speaker 1: is elected by the members of the patrol. He is
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  Speaker 1: the one that leads the troop by preparing agendas, conducting conferences,
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  Speaker 1: training youth leaders, keeping troop representation active, and guiding the
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  Speaker 1: entire group. Most Boy Scouts look up to their Scout
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  Speaker 1: Master and see them as a positive role model. Overall,
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  Speaker 1: The Boy Scouts of America was created to make a
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  Speaker 1: positive difference in young boys' lives and teach them about
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  Speaker 1: the world. It's supposed to be a safe place for
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  Speaker 1: them to hang out with their friends, learn from the
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  Speaker 1: trusted men in their community, and participate in fun learning activities.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a boy who grew up in America, you
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  Speaker 1: might have been in Boy Scouts yourself, or at least
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  Speaker 1: knew someone who was. Throughout the country, there are more
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  Speaker 1: than a million youth members of the Boy Scouts with
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  Speaker 1: over six hundred and twenty eight thousand volunteers in local councils.
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  Speaker 1: But as with every single group in America, there are
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  Speaker 1: always bad actors. And like I said, before, Boy Scouts
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  Speaker 1: it's been a magnet for and there's been one notorious
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  Speaker 1: group that's existed in the Boy Scouts Troop one thirty seven.
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  Speaker 1: As we know from the stories told on this show,
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  Speaker 1: evil often entangles itself in things that are supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be good, supposed to be innocent, supposed to be pure. Today,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be discussing a scandal in the Boys
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  Speaker 1: Scouts of America that includes decades of cover ups and secrets.
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  Speaker 1: According to Time Magazine, between nineteen forty four and twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: at least seven thousand, eight hundred suspected twelve thousand, two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four boys in the Boy Scouts, and
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  Speaker 1: experts say that these numbers are a gross underestimation. Just
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  Speaker 1: think about that, there's over twelve thousand, two hundred Boy
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  Speaker 1: Scouts that were those are the reported I can't even
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  Speaker 1: begin to imagine how many children were actually victimized by
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  Speaker 1: people well a part of the Boy Scout program. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'd probably put the real number at like fifty to
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  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand, probably even more than that. Honestly, so
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  Speaker 1: many reports, especially back then, you know, nineteen forty four,
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  Speaker 1: Like no one's reporting or even listening to children who
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  Speaker 1: are reporting those things seriously. Either way, it's an astounding
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  Speaker 1: number of innocent boys who have been the hands of
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  Speaker 1: their Boy Scout leaders, adults they were supposed to trust,
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  Speaker 1: and who they admired. In recent years, a secret case
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  Speaker 1: file called the Perversion Files was revealed to the public,
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  Speaker 1: which was a huge collection of documents containing reports and
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  Speaker 1: evidence of men who were removed from the Boy Scouts
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  Speaker 1: over the past sixty years for being We'll come back
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  Speaker 1: to the Perversion Files in a bit to discuss them
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  Speaker 1: more in detail, but the abs identified in the documents
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  Speaker 1: lived all over the country. The highest number of cases, though,
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  Speaker 1: were discovered to have happened in a specific area of
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans, Louisiana. Upon further investigation, an inner that was
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  Speaker 1: ran by the leaders of the Boy Scouts in that
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  Speaker 1: area was discovered, and the details are not only gut wrenching,
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  Speaker 1: but also horrific and infuriating. And this brings us to
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  Speaker 1: Troop one thirty seven. In nineteen seventy four, Lewis seatle
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  Speaker 1: Raymond Woodhall, Richard Stanley Halverson, and Harry Kramer founded the
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  Speaker 1: Boy Scout unit Troop one thirty seven in eastern New Orleans, Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: What looked like a normal troop within Boy Scouts on
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  Speaker 1: the outside held disturbing des details behind closed doors. The
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  Speaker 1: ill intentions for starting Troop one thirty seven were later revealed.
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  Speaker 1: This group of men essentially founded Troop one thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: to provide themselves and others with small boys to After
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  Speaker 1: just a small amount of time, Troop one thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: turned into something more horrific than anyone could imagine. The
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  Speaker 1: group would specifically recruit poor, lower class children from broken
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  Speaker 1: homes to join Troop one thirty seven, which is common
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  Speaker 1: for since they find these children to be easy targets.
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  Speaker 1: This tactic was also consistent with other Scouts from all
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  Speaker 1: over the country. They bought their affection and trust with
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  Speaker 1: gifts like bicycles, uniforms, and other items. They invited the
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  Speaker 1: young boys over for sleepovers and pool parties, which apparently
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  Speaker 1: was another nationwide trend among the Boy Scouts perpetrators. Pool
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  Speaker 1: parties who would have thought. Mason Spong, a New Orleans
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  Speaker 1: Police Department detective in the nineteen seventies, received a call
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  Speaker 1: one day while he was working from a store employee.
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  Speaker 1: The employee had been developing some things and accidentally came
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  Speaker 1: across some photos of the leaders of Boy Scout Troupe
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  Speaker 1: one thirty seven having with miners young young boys. After
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  Speaker 1: Spong and his colleagues were handed the pictures, they learned
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  Speaker 1: that the men in them had formed part of a
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  Speaker 1: referral service, if you will, that sent boys around the
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  Speaker 1: country for other to This ring had members in several
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  Speaker 1: states and even in England. Troop one thirty seven was
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  Speaker 1: declared by authorities to be the nucleus of a nationwide
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  Speaker 1: and ring, with boys recruited into the troop being sent
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  Speaker 1: to other states for the of the men there. That's
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  Speaker 1: a direct quote. What a better way to get away
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  Speaker 1: with a ring than start your own boy Scouts troop
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  Speaker 1: where you would be surrounded by young boys who looked
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  Speaker 1: up to you and were told to listen to you
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  Speaker 1: as the leader. In one news article from that time,
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  Speaker 1: detective Spong stated that quote, it seems to be like
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  Speaker 1: spiderwebs strung out all over the nation end quote. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Spong was eventually able to get Seattle to corroborate the
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  Speaker 1: statements of several mostly underprivileged Troop members between the ages
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  Speaker 1: of eleven to fifteen who told police investigators that their
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  Speaker 1: scout masters had and them. Two of the leaders of
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  Speaker 1: Troop one thirty seven later pled guilty in exchange for
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  Speaker 1: reduced prison sentences of seven and thirty years Raymond tom
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  Speaker 1: Woodhall and Harry Kramer, the other two involved with Troop
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  Speaker 1: one thirty seven, were sentenced to seventy five and forty
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  Speaker 1: five years in prison. This means that three out of
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  Speaker 1: those four people, if they're still alive, are still out
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  Speaker 1: there somewhere in society, living freely, living their lives to
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  Speaker 1: the max. God knows what they're doing. Why does this
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  Speaker 1: happen so goddamn often? But this brings us to one
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  Speaker 1: of the big questions where all the facts of Troop
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  Speaker 1: one thirty seven fully investigated and we're all of the
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  Speaker 1: perpetrators actually brought to justice. You can bet since we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about this scandal on the show today that the
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  Speaker 1: answer to that question is definitely not. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the perpetrators who were prosecuted. The survivors and
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  Speaker 1: the conspiracies behind the handful of others who were involved,
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  Speaker 1: and they were known to be involved, but they unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: got away without any legal repercussions. The Perversion Files, Mike
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  Speaker 1: I briefly stated earlier. The Perversion Files, also known as
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  Speaker 1: the p Files to the Boy Scouts, were a huge
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  Speaker 1: collection of documents containing reports and evidence of men who
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  Speaker 1: were removed from the Boy Scouts over the past sixty
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  Speaker 1: years for being child It was a system designed to
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  Speaker 1: quietly keep track of suspected within the Boy Scouts. All
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  Speaker 1: these files were compiled in a database and eventually provided
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  Speaker 1: to the Los Angeles Times in twenty twelve. What those
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  Speaker 1: reporters saw was disturbing, to say the least. There were
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  Speaker 1: endless thousands of accounts of allegations against young Boy Scout members,
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  Speaker 1: charges that included and forcing young boys to performs on
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  Speaker 1: the Scout masters and the other adult volunteers. And as
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  Speaker 1: it turns out, many of those perpetrators who were known
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  Speaker 1: to the Boy Scouts to be were still allowed to
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  Speaker 1: continue scouting at other troops. The Boy Scouts National Chapter
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  Speaker 1: didn't keep tabs on these, They wrote their names down,
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  Speaker 1: put them in a file, and they never checked up
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  Speaker 1: on them again. It was like acting like you're doing
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  Speaker 1: your due diligence, but you're not really doing anything. They
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  Speaker 1: weren't investigating these things, they weren't actually reporting them, they
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  Speaker 1: weren't keeping track of these people. And lo and behold
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  Speaker 1: a number of these After being caught one time, they
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  Speaker 1: got out, moved and then started scouting with another troop,
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  Speaker 1: another fresh batch of victims for them to take out
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  Speaker 1: into the woods and do god knows what with. The
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  Speaker 1: names that were disclosed in the perversion files were reportedly
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  Speaker 1: expelled from the Boy Scouts for homosexuality suspicions, not apparently.
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  Speaker 1: In the nineteen seventies and early nineteen eighties, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people saw stories about against minor boys and were
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  Speaker 1: more concerned with the fact that they were doing homosexual
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  Speaker 1: acts rather than acts of It's disturbing and weird that
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  Speaker 1: this was such a common thing. Gender doesn't matter when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to it's still no matter of the gender,
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  Speaker 1: sexual identity, age, race is an always will be nothing
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  Speaker 1: but a scummy. In a newspaper article from nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: two about a Boy Scouts scandal, it's said that nine
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  Speaker 1: men had been convicted in connection with homosexual activities involving
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  Speaker 1: a Boy Scout troop in eastern New Orleans in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy six. That was a direct quote, don't you mean
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  Speaker 1: activities though? I mean that's what they were. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: homosexual activities against children. These were crimes. It's crazy to
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  Speaker 1: see this terminology change over the years. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: incredibly dangerous to use that term instead of what it
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  Speaker 1: actually is, which gave people at the time obviously an
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  Speaker 1: excuse to go after completely innocent gay men. But within
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  Speaker 1: those files were thousands of reports of all throughout the country,
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  Speaker 1: not just in Troop one point thirty seven in Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: These reports date all the way back to nineteen nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: So why did it take so long for these people
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  Speaker 1: to be exposed? Well, it wasn't until two years after
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  Speaker 1: the national lawsuit against the Boy Scouts took place in
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten that the files were released for public viewing.
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  Speaker 1: As it turns out, there were thousands of that had
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  Speaker 1: been on the Boy Scout's radar for nearly a century,
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  Speaker 1: and that entire time the public wasn't able to look
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  Speaker 1: into it or even know that it was going on.
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  Speaker 1: In the first place, these files were hidden away from parents,
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  Speaker 1: and the boy Scouts were knowingly at times allowing that
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  Speaker 1: they kept files on to lead groups of children and
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  Speaker 1: get that access to young boys that these craved. And
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  Speaker 1: they weren't informing, you know, parents, all these guys that convicted,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't doing any of that. They were putting these
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  Speaker 1: children on a silver platter and practically handing them to them.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not all. The investigation into the files also
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  Speaker 1: showed that the Scouts at times failed to report that
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  Speaker 1: to authorities, and many times they covered up these allegations
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  Speaker 1: to protect the organization's reputation and image. In New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: where Troop one thirty seven was located, the files suggested
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  Speaker 1: that they reacted to criminal charges already filed against Scout
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  Speaker 1: masters and volunteers and looked to minimize media coverage of
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  Speaker 1: the events. I'm assuming they did this in an attempt
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  Speaker 1: to take eyes off the Scouting organization so they could
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  Speaker 1: continue doing what they were doing, covering up crimes of
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  Speaker 1: In many of the incidents scribed in the files, no
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  Speaker 1: criminal charges were ever filed, meaning that the allegations were
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  Speaker 1: never actually heard in court. Additionally, only a few of
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  Speaker 1: the men from the New Orleans area and Troop one
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven were listed by name. Why who are these
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  Speaker 1: other two mysterious? And why were their names being protected? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna say why now. Earlier we mentioned that those
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  Speaker 1: rounds of film were turned into the police that contained
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  Speaker 1: the images that were discovered by the store employees in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, and this brings us to Harry Kramer.
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  Speaker 1: Harry Kramer was the assistant scout master of Troop one
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven at the time, and Kramer, along with three
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: other scout masters, was identified as being in those films
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: pictured on camera. Those young boys those pictures, obviously leading
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: to their arrests. The other three men that were identified
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: in the film were Richard Halverson, Raymond Woodhall, and Robert Lang.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: After the film discovery, Richard Halverson, the scout master of
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Troop one thirty seven, had his home rated and that's
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: where everything began. During their search, investigators found two foster
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: children boys living with him, aged nine and eleven. They
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: also found an eighteen year old named Lloyd Schwegman, who
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: was then arrested for possession of the drug tuen al
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: and contributing to the delinquency of a minor now Aside
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: from child, the police officers also seized index cards listing
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: the names and addresses of young boys from other states,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: as well as printed forms detailing these sexual preferences and
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: personality types of all of these. Detectives stated that the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: materials had been used to facilitate the interstates of boys
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: through mailing lists and advertisements placed in adult magazines. They
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: also found correspondence Richard Halverson had with other all across
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the United States. This whole thing was starting to take shape.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Then there was Raymond T. Woodhall, another Scout leader of
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Troop one thirty seven, who was discovered in the raid.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: They found out that Raymond had been in the process
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: of applying for federal and state funding to establish a
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: number of group homes for boys in New Orleans. The
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: investigation also revealed the history between Woodhall and Halverson. They
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: had personally worked together at a private school for children
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: in Florida called the Adelphi Academies owned by a wealthy
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: man named Peter Bradford. Woodall and Halverson had moved to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: New Orleans together in the early nineteen seventies and became
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: juvenile probation officers positions which they used to access and
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: reactivate case files on juvenile offenders. They would then use
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: this to leverage offers to the juvenile's family of sponsored
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: scholarships to the Adelphi Academy in Florida. So they were
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: using their positions of power to almost pretty much threaten
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: these families into sending their children on the sponsored scholarship
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: to Florida. And at least six boys from New Orleans
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: were to Florida to this Adelphi Academy because of this practice,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: where they were then used for an on camera to
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: produce It's truly insane the lengths that these people would
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: go to to obtain these young victims in order to
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: use them and their They reopened old juvenile cases combed
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: through police reports just to have access to these boys,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: and then they would bribe their families with this great
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: opportunity to attend a private academy school to help them
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: completely free of charge. If you haven't picked up on
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: it yet, Adelphi Academies was not being used as just
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: an academy. It's disgusting and so so heartbreaking for all
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: these young boys. The Adelphi Academies was more like the
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: school for proper there's also Lewis sial Now. We mentioned
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Lewis earlier since he was one of the founders of
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Troop one thirty seven. After the raid and investigation, he
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: was promised consideration of his sentencing to testify against the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: other Troop one thirty seven members during trial, which he
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: did a lot. In fact, Lewis Siaalle testified in detail
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: about years worth of against children within the Boy Scouts,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: with victims as young as eight years old. Lewis later
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: pled guilty to two crimes against nature and received a
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: reduced sentence of only seven years. I don't know if,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: of course, weren't existing or common charges at this time,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: but most of these guys were charged with aggravated crimes
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: against nature, which is considered a act that is deemed
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: unnatural or contrary to the order of nature. Seven years
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: in prison for a hard core like that. Seven years
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Gotta love the American justice system. There's also Richard WindMan
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: now Detective Spong, who we talked about earlier. He was
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the one who initially got that call about the photographs
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: being discovered. He said some of the most crucial testimony
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: in this case came from Richard WindMan, and he remains
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: disturbed from the details of his to this day. Richard
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: WindMan appeared on the Netflix documentary Scout's Honor to publicly
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: tell his story about the years of abuse he suffered
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: at the hands of his Scout leaders in Troop one
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: point thirty seven. His story is hard to listen to.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: His youth and his innocence was completely ripped away by
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: these monsters. Spong recalls watching Windmen take the stand in
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: front of the crowded court and said he was so
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: angelic looking and that it was heart wrenching. He was small, sweet,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and had blonde hair. He was just a child, yet
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: there he was talking about the horrific, graphic, disturbing things
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: that had happened to him, things that no child should
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: ever have to go through. According to Winman, testifying at
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: the trial was horrible. He said, you feel embarrassed, you
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: feel like you've done something wrong, and you're sitting there
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: in a courtroom full of adults in media, and you
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: were asked to recount all of this. WindMan grew up
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: in New Orleans and was recruited when Troop one thirty
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: seven started canvassing neighborhoods in the nineteen seventies for Boy Scouts.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: He recalls how strange it was that he skipped Cub
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Scouts and went straight to a Boy Scout. Cub Scouts
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: are younger members of Boy Scouts, ranging from ages five
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: to ten. Although he was of age to be a
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Cub Scout, they recruited him directly into their Boy Scout troop,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: making him feel like it was an honor and privilege
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: to be a part of it. So young, he said,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I took it out was special. I was advanced. I
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: had a Boy Scouts uniform, and I was so young
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: and not supposed to do that. The shirt pockets rested
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: right above my belt. I looked ridiculu imagining Windmen in
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: his oversized uniform. Feeling special about moving up with the
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: older boys is just heartbreaking knowing what came next. It
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: didn't take long after joining that the horrors began. He
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: calls them nighttime trips. This is where he was first
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: at Woodhall's house by Harry Kramer, which went on for years.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: According to Winmen, men would fly from out of town
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: to be there. It was a huge network. The Boy
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Scouts was just a front for all of it. WindMan
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: also states that during this time he was by a
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: New Orleans Police Department detective who was the commander of
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the child's unit at the time. He also recalls being
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: by a janitor of the Catholic school and a priest.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I mean so many different people were clients of the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: troop one point thirty seven a ring that they were running,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and no one said a word until it was accidentally
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: stumbled upon in those photos. WindMan was the main victim
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and survivor who helped bring these main men to justice.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Detective Spawng said that he was able to corroborate everything
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Windmen had told him at the time. He also talked
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: to the other young victims and survivors and encourage them
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: to tell their stories to Detective Spong as well. According
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: to Spong, Winman was the reason why all these other
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: children learned to trust him. If it wasn't for Winmen,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: it's hard to tell if these men would have ever
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: been found guilty. Sadly, Winman attempted to himself at the
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: age of nineteen and eventually turned to alcoholism at the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: age of forty seven to self medicaid. However, he eventually
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: got sober, took medication, and started seeing a trauma informed
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: psychologist He's now the co founder and president of Survivors
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: of Childhood also known as SCSA. He's a survivor, victim advocate,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: activist and according to him, a warrior. And I agree.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: But there are other known players in Troop one thirty seven,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: lots of people that helped cover this whole thing up,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: who engaged in these activities, who were intimately involved. So
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: another interesting player that is going to be involved in
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: this story. If you guys know Harry Connick Junior, He's
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: a famous singer. He's been a judge. I believe it
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: was on American Idol on one of those shows, or
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: America's Got Talent. His father, or Harry Connick Senior, was
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the District Attorney of Orleans, or Orleans Parish or New
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Orleans at the time of these crimes. And Harry Connick
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Senior is going to come up time and time again
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: as being tied in to this entire affair in a
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: way that's absolutely unbelievable. We first have to start talking
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: about Richard C. Jacobs. Richard C. Jacobs was a prominent
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: millionaire who lived in Boston who was arrested during the
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Troop one thirty seven investigation and was given the most charges. However,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Harry Connick Senior, the New Orleans District Attorney, declined to
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: ever reveal how the investigation exactly led to Richard C. Jacobs,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: or to any of the other men who lived in
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: other parts of the country for that matter. It was
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: something he deemed as unimportant to release to the public.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: There's also Reverend Claudius Ira Vermil Junior. Now, within the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: correspondence found between Richard Halverson and other across the United States,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: investigators found a letter written to him by Reverend Claudius vermil,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: an episcopal priest, inviting him out to visit his Boys
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Farm in Tennessee known as Boys Farm, Inc. This was
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: a one and a half acre boys farm which was
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: marketed as a rehab center for homeless and troubled boys,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: but was later revealed to be running as a amongst
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: its minor residents. This was a whole thing that we're
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: going to be doing an episode on in the future.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Reverend Claudius bud eyra Vermeil Junior. He's tied into North
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Fox Island. He was friends with Frank Sheldon from North
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Fox Island. So Troop one thirty seven is connected to
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: that network. And right there, that's a connection that shows
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: that Troop one thirty seven was connected to a much
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: larger rank. The Boys Farm is one of the most
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: disturbing things ever. It was another production home. It was
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: a place where Richmond could pay to come visit the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: boys and do whatever they wanted to these children, and
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: it was a place of pure evil. So the fact
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: that there is a letter that exists from the reverend
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: who was running the Boy's Farm to somebody from Troop
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: one thirty seven is absolutely insane. It's thought that Troop
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: one thirty seven frequently brought their boy scouts to the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Boys Farm to be and we're going to talk more
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: about that in a future episode, but just keep that
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: in mind that that establishes a connection to a major
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: national There's also Stanley Burkhart. Stanley Burkhart is a former
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Louisiana child's investigator for the New Orleans Police Department. Interestingly enough,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Stanley was one of the perpetrators who later admitted to
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: children during his career, children that included Richard WindMan. He's
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: even the suspect in multiple murders today. Sounds like a
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: great guy. He was once a law enforcer who built
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: cases against New Orleans childs in the nineteen seventies and eighties,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: but his career ended after being convicted of mailing images
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: depicting of underaged boys to undercover agents a wolfed sheepskin
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the whole time. He also later pleaded guilty to a
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: nine year old girl he was related to by marriage.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: As recently as twenty nineteen, he violated his parole by
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: failing to notify police of an email address and username
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: he had which he used to leave suggestive comments under
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: young boys' photos online. This opened up a search into
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: his home, which uncovered sixty seven images of teenagers. He
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: was sent back to prison and then transferred to a
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: federal halfway house in April of this year. Still, in
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: August of twenty twenty four, Stanley Burkhart was released from
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the halfway house with few limits on his movements. Even
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: though he's still required to wear an ankle monitor, he
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: no longer has to log his movements, honor a curfew,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: or avoid anywhere not explicitly banned by his release conditions.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: According to his parole officer, a prescribed regiment of medical
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and psychiatric care prevents Burkhart from being dangerous keep in mind.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: This is one of the monsters who Richard WindMan when
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: he was a child in Troop one thirty seven at
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: a time when he was working as a child advocate.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Just like the Scout masters, he was supposed to be
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: someone who children could trust. His release has triggered severe
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: emotions in Winmen, as it should to him. It is
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: a quote utter failure of the justice system end quote.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Because also Robert Lang, initial Scout master and committee member
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: of Troop one thirty seven. Robert Lang was known to
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: have provided out of state politicians with boy prostitutes under
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: the disguise of a tour guide business called the Adelphi Tours.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: He also had previously served as an officer in four
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: different branches of the United States military. When Robert was investigated,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: they found jars of in his personal collection. Unfortunately, Robert
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Lang pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in this whole
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: thing and received a suspended sentence, meaning he spent zero
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: time in prison for his crimes. There's also Harry Connick
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Senior himself. Over time, the truth behind Troop one thirty
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: seven was more massive than anyone could have ever imagined,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and facts were discovered well beyond the main perpetrators. Sadly,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: multiple other prominent rings of that decade were connected to
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: this same operation. It turns out the Troop one thirty seven,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: like I just talked about before, was more than just
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: a local ring for miners involving a few scout masters
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: and volunteers with some out of state client. They were
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: catering to the entire nation. The main person we're going
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: to be talking about here when it comes to conspiracies
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: is the District Attorney of New Orleans around that time,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Harry Connick Senior, who prosecuted these cases. Like I mentioned before,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you might have heard of Harry Connick's son, the famous actor, singer,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and TV host Harry Connick Junior. On the outside, Harry
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Conic looked like a hero for bringing some of these
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: men to justice and shedding light on what really happened
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: within Troup one thirty seven. But upon further review, there
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: are some weird backstories and connections surrounding Harry Connick Senior.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: During his closing argument, he told the jury quote, this man,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: referring to Woodhall, used these things American institutions, to hide
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: behind them and use them to entice these children into
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: his trap. Any man who would take a young, precious
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: child that's him continuously needs to be punished, he continued, saying,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: it's often asked who will speak for the children. We
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: ask you to speak for the children. End quote. Now
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: this is interesting coming from Harry Conic Senior since a
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: few years later, in nineteen eighty, he was signed to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: the case of John Campbell and then dropped the charges
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: against him. This is where things get a little tricky,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: so stick with me here. John Campbell's name was first
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: mentioned during the Troop one thirty seven trial by one
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: of Harry Connock Senior's own witnesses, Lewis Sialle, who was
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the perpetrator given a really low sentence in exchange for
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: his testimony. He implicated in court that Harry Connock Senior
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: and John Campbell, another who was involved, were lovers. Not
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: only was John Campbell ape, he was also a well
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: known New Orleans artist and undercovered child producer. Harry Connick Senior,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: of course, later denied these claims, but did admit that
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Campbell that was a political supporter of his during his campaign.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: It was later revealed that Connick and Campbell met shortly
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: after Campbell's home was raided by detectives during the Troop
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: one thirty seven investigation. Three days after the raid, Campbell
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: fled from New Orleans. Harry Connock Senior then subpoenaed the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: local Times Picky You newspaper in order to obtain all
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: materials they pust related to his and Campbell's relationship, likely
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: to see what kind of information they had about the
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: connections between the two. Then he tried the case when
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Campbell was out of state. Ten months after Campbell fled,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: more charges were filed against him, making him a fugitive.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: After he was picked up by the FBI years later
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: in Arizona and brought back to New Orleans, his case
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: was assigned to be handled directly by Harry Connock Senior,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: since he had handled all the others related to Troop
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: one thirty seven. However, Harry Connock Senior reassigned it to
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Assistant District Attorney Terry Allerkin after Campbell told a judge
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: he had known Harry Connock Senior for several years as
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: a personal friend, a legal advisor, and an active campaign
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: supporter when Conic ran for office. So Harry Connock Senior
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: was trying these cases against Troop one thirty seven when
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: he was extremely good friends with one of the perpetrators,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and maybe he was even his secret lover. After the
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: case was transferred, that other district attorney dropped all remaining
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: charges against Campbell, which gives even more valid to the
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: possibility that Ciali's claims were true. Of course, district Attorney
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: alercon said he handled Campbell's case without any bias and
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: without any encouragement from Harry Connick Senior, stating that Conic
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: told him to handle the case as he would any
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: other Now Harry Knock Senior would never be reached for
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: comment on Campbell and the true reasoning behind his dropped charges.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Consider that a child his charges dropped, a guy tied
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: into Troop one thirty seven, but also directly allegedly intimately
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: tied into the district attorney. Pretty strange, right. While in
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: November nineteen seventy nine, Raymond Woodall, who had been sentenced
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: to seventy five years in prison, sent a letter to
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: The Times picky You newspaper regarding the Adelphi Tours, which
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: hadn't been made public about the case. He stated, quote,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the service started out using adults, but they began ripping
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: off the customers. That's when Woodall said we could use
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the kids. They'll get fifty dollars, a good meal and
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: all that jazz. The customers will enjoy themselves and everyone
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: will be happy. End quote. New Orleans detectives confirmed they
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: investigated this tour guide and Conic's office was made aware
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: of this, but they didn't pursue it in the past
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: because the people involved had already been prosecuted on other charges.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: But Raymond Woodhall was given seventy five years, Richard Halverson
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: was given thirty years, Harry O. Kramer was given forty
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: five years, and Robert Lang was given none. Robert Lang, remember,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: was the guy operating these Adelphi tours, the guy these
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: children to politicians. There was plenty of room for more
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: charges that could have put these people in prison forever.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Why wasn't the tour guide service investigated more? Why did
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: that investigation go nowhere? Were there other people involved who
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Harry Connock Senior didn't want to be disclosed. I don't
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: understand how an entire fake business, which in reality was
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: exposed as being a ring that case could be given
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: to the district attorney and nothing's done with it. Plus,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: this whole thing had direct ties to Troop one thirty seven,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: which would have given the prosecution more ammunition. It would
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: have been easy. It would have been a slam dunk case.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: This ring operating as as a tour guide service. They
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: had witnesses, they had people that could testify, They had
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: paper trails and documents. Why didn't they dig into it?
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Another interesting fact about Harry Connock Senior involves Gerard Jerry Howell,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: a former priest who was accused of twenty four children.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Handfuls of people have come forward over the years claiming
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: that Jerald Jerry Howell them while they were members of
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: the Catholic Church and at the Catholic Center for the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Hearing Impaired that he started in nineteen sixty seven. Kathy
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  Speaker 1: Austin and her sister Darlene went public with their stories
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  Speaker 1: of Gerard Jerry Howell as far back as nineteen ninety two,
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  Speaker 1: but sadly, the archdiocese simply refused to remove him from ministry.
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans Archbishop Philip Hannon reported Howell to Knick around
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  Speaker 1: the year nineteen eighty. Now New Orleans Archbishop Philip Hannon
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  Speaker 1: reported that he had heard Jerry Howell was and he
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  Speaker 1: reported these crimes to Harry Connock Senior around the year
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty But Harry Connock Senior, a known Catholic, never
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  Speaker 1: filed a single charge against him, even though they were
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  Speaker 1: multiple victims and he was apparently multiple children. Why reno
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  Speaker 1: charges filed? Why was he not investigated at that time
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  Speaker 1: by Harry Connick Senior. I guess we'll never know. Another
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  Speaker 1: Catholic priest at the time, Dino senal was caught with
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  Speaker 1: in his room at directory of Saint Rita's Roman Catholic
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  Speaker 1: Church in New Orleans in nineteen eighty eight. You heard
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  Speaker 1: that right, a Catholic priest. He was caught with child
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  Speaker 1: inside of the church in his personal room. And I
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  Speaker 1: actually did a whole episode of this on our Patreon
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  Speaker 1: for murder in America. He's tied into some murders and deaths,
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  Speaker 1: and Dino sinal he was murdered eventually by a victim
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  Speaker 1: of his in a foreign country. But he actually produced
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  Speaker 1: that child inside of the church himself with victims. This
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  Speaker 1: wasn't stuff that he had purchased. He actually was producing
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  Speaker 1: that stuff in the building. Investigators at the time found
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  Speaker 1: magazine articles about graphic photographs of underaged boys and even
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  Speaker 1: like I said, homemade videos of Dino Sinal at least
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  Speaker 1: seven different boys, sometimes inside of the church building itself.
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  Speaker 1: Despite this mountain of evidence, Harry Connock Senior claimed that
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  Speaker 1: the case was too weak to prosecute. Two weak to
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  Speaker 1: prosecute did video footage of Dino Sino children inside of
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  Speaker 1: the church where they found the videos? What more evidence
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  Speaker 1: could you possibly need? Well? In nineteen ninety, Gary Raymond,
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  Speaker 1: an investigator for the District Attorney's office, begged Harry Connick
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  Speaker 1: Senior to prosecute Dino Sino in a three page letter
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  Speaker 1: that he personally wrote to him. When asked about when
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  Speaker 1: he was going to prosecute Dino Cino, Harry Connock Senior said, quote, never,
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  Speaker 1: as long as I'm the da end quote. Dino Cino
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  Speaker 1: was later given a minor charge of possession of pornography,
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  Speaker 1: which was later dismissed on a technicality. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing that we could do a whole episode on.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you have a priest who's victimizing dozens, it
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  Speaker 1: could be hundreds of children in New Orleans. He's filming
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  Speaker 1: him these children, he's tied into rings, and the District
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  Speaker 1: Attorney literally says on the record he's never going to
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  Speaker 1: prosecute him as long as he's the DA, and he
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  Speaker 1: gets off on a technicality, he goes free, even though
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: he victimized so many children and made child what the
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: was going on in New Orleans? So it's no surprise
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  Speaker 1: when you look at Harry Connick Senior and Troop one
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven and why all this went awry. This guy
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  Speaker 1: was part of something, in my opinion, much bigger than
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: simply just being a guy with you know, predator tendencies
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  Speaker 1: or sympathy for p So Harry Connick Senior was the
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  Speaker 1: district attorney prosecuting these men for the crimes they committed
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  Speaker 1: while running Troop one thirty seven, even though he had
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  Speaker 1: direct ties to someone who was participating in it, and
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: then he repeatedly failed to prosecute other during his career,
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  Speaker 1: and he let who appeared in child walk away from
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  Speaker 1: their crimes and convictions. What else was he involved in
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  Speaker 1: that we don't know about? And who else was he protecting? Well?
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  Speaker 1: Conic Senior just died in January of twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't think we'll ever uncover the full truth
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  Speaker 1: behind it all now. Sadly, Troop one thirty seven was
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  Speaker 1: the only scouting ring that was ever really talked about
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  Speaker 1: until recently, and who knows if it even would have
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  Speaker 1: been talked about if those people hadn't discovered those undeveloped
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  Speaker 1: photographs in the first place. Ken Tipton, a victim and
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  Speaker 1: survivor of another troop, said that he and his friends
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: were passed around from city to city by these Scout masters.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Although Lost Valley around Saint Louis was their home base,
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  Speaker 1: they were by the most people and were forced to
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  Speaker 1: participate in the worst scenarios when they were sent to
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans. According to him, there were springs all over
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  Speaker 1: the country being facilitated through Boy Scouts, was Troop one
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  Speaker 1: point thirty seven the center of it all. Well. The
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy in February of
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty after several US states enacted laws allowing accusers
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  Speaker 1: to sue over decades old allegations. After that, thousands of
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: victims became plaintiffs of the massive lawsuit that filed. A
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: two point four to six billion dollar settlement was put
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  Speaker 1: up by the Boy Scouts, which resolved eighty two thousand,
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  Speaker 1: five hundred claims of men who claimed they were by
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  Speaker 1: Troop leaders as children. Given what we know about Troop
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: one thirty seven alone, I don't doubt any of these
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  Speaker 1: stories for a second. But will we ever know the
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  Speaker 1: full story behind Troop one thirty seven and all of
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the perpetrators who were involved, even if they weren't living
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  Speaker 1: in New Orleans and actually volunteering locally for Troop one
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven, There were men all over the country who
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  Speaker 1: contributed to this ring, and we're paying money to these
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  Speaker 1: innocent children. Should be noted also that there was child
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: production and distribution involved with this ring as well. My
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: thoughts as always go out to all of the Boy
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  Speaker 1: Scout survivors and I really hope that they're able to
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: heal from the extensive trauma that they've suffered. Now Troop
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  Speaker 1: one thirty seven. We could be talking about this all day,
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  Speaker 1: But once again, just like with all of these other rings,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: you have maybe one or two people that are brought
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  Speaker 1: to justice in a sort of kind of way, but
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: then you have all these other red herrings and people
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: and loose ends and people that died and people that
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: escaped justice. For what reason? Why do these people consistently
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: escape justice? Who is letting these people run free. Why
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: are they allowing these things to happen? Harry Connock Senior,
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  Speaker 1: Why the did you not prosecute these Why did you
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: not stop these people from these children, filming these and
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: selling this footage? I mean, it's literally like insane to
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: me that they find the footage of Dino Sino, completely
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: unrelated to Troop one thirty seven in its own way,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: but they find the footage of him children in the
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: building that he lives and works in, and Harry Conock
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  Speaker 1: Senior literally says that I will never prosecute him. Luckily, though,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: justice was eventually served. Like I said, Dino Sinal got
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: murdered after trying to another child in a foreign country.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: But still, what the there's there's I say, in all
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: these episodes where there's smoke, there's fire, and this is
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: like an entire smoke screen. There is so much smoke here,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: and it's still mysterious. There's still so many loose ends.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: In the Adelphi Academy. We could talk about the graphic
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: details of what was going on in Florida, the children
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: being stripped and filmed there by those people. None of
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: them were ever held accountable. The people in Florida they
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: just skirted on the charges, declined to prosecute, investigation went nowhere,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: And you're really going to tell me once again, it's
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: just like Epstein, It's just like the Franklin ring. It's
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: just like North Fox Island. Yes, they nabbed a couple
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: of these guys and gave them some weak cases and
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: weak charges and weak sentences. But what about the men
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: that were using these services? What about the men that
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: were paying the scout masters so that they could have
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: access to these children? All the kids the victims testified
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: that men were brought in, they were flown out to
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: other people's houses, Men were allowed to do whatever they
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: wanted to these kids. None of those men were ever
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: held accountable. Try to find one arrest or prosecution. It's
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: because it didn't happen. I know in this case that
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: there was the Boston lawyer. He was tied in, and
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: I think there was one other guy. But there were
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: hundreds of perpetrators in this case, as with all these rings,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: hundreds could be thousands of perpetrators really, but they never
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: are really brought to justice. There's just a stamp of
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: approval on the cover up. Like Harry Connick Senior dropping
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: charges moving on, everyone's you know, sworn to silence, and
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: sometimes we don't even hear about these people who die
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: before they can share their truth or connection to these cases,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: and then society moves on and history continues to repeat itself.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: This is just a crazy, crazy story and one that
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: I hope I never have to cover again. But as always,
• 43:25
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• 43:51
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• 43:53
  Speaker 1: and for embarking on this journey with me through the
• 43:56
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• 43:59
  Speaker 1: to be talked to. I really really cannot thank you
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  Speaker 1: all enough for being here. Anyways, one more time, that's
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  Speaker 1: it for today. I will catch y' all next week.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: As always, keep that tinfoil hat on and stay suspicious.