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…
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Court documents indicate fraternal order's CEO William Airey is being sued by a North Carolina doctor who claimed Airey abused him in Ohio more than 30 years ago.
A doctor has filed a lawsuit against William Airey, the CEO of Moose International, claiming Airey sexually abused him in Ohio and Louisiana more than 30 years ago, when the physician was 12 years old, according to court documents and multiple media sources. The lawsuit further claims that Airey was twice investigated by Moose International for sexual misconduct—in 1996 and again in 2007—but the organization took no action. North Carolina physician Jason Peck filed the civil suit Thursday in Fort Hill, S.C., according to a story in the Chicago Sun-Times. Peck claims that Airey "began grooming him to abuse him sexually in 1980, when he was 12," according an article on the Huffington Post website. "Moose fraternity is shocked by this …
11:18 am on Sunday, December 16, 2012
if he is gilty of this crime,and dmost sex crimes turn out to be true just look back at these priest who abused children from a early age, speeking for my self, when it comes to the young and the elderly i have no patients with them and if it was left up to me i would castrate all of them ,0nce they were found gilty i also feel after a trail and if found gilty they should take a lie dectetor test… more ›
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 ›