William Airey retires eight days after a civil lawsuit is filed that claims he abused a 12-year-old boy more than 30 years ago. Scott D. Hart, executive director of Mooseheart Child City and School, takes over immediately.
In the wake of a lawsuit claiming Moose International CEO William Airey sexually abused a 12-year-old boy more than 30 years ago, Moose International announced today (Friday, Dec. 21) that Airey will retire immediately. Airey's replacement is Scott D. Hart, executive director of Mooseheart Child City and School. Airey, 71, will stay on with the organization as a consultant of the 1.2 million-member organization through Jan. 31, to help in the transition, according to a press release issued by Moose International shortly before 3 p.m. Friday. The civil lawsuit against Airey filed Dec. 13 in Fort Hill, SC, by North Carolina physician Jason Peck claims that Airey "began grooming him to abuse him sexually in 1980, when he was 12," according an…
Almost 300 Illinois records are included in the Boy Scouts of America's once-secret "perversion files." Search for your town or troop number.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
Patch's searchable database allows you to search by cities in Illinois. Information gathered by the Los Angeles Times shows the leaders of the Boy Scouts of America who were expelled between 1947 and 2005 on suspicions or confirmation of sexual abuse. If a troop is listed, a case file exists. At this time, not all case files are available online. As new documents become available, Patch will update this database.
Maria
7:56 am on Thursday, March 14, 2013
This just makes me more glad that I ran away from that place when I did. I was only there 3 years and in the first year alone, one house parent was arrested for molesting several boys under the age of 6 and not much after a boy in my grade was raped by an older boy he lived with. Not to mention being HEAVILY medicated the first 2 years which made my life a living hell and watching constant … more ›