The Boy Scouts of America commissioned the `` independent review '' of its `` perversion files '' by a former FBI agent and an attorney for victims who have sued it over sexual abuse in their youth programs. `` This suggests that youth were safer in Scouting than in society at large . '' A newspaper study of files said Scouts `` failed to report hundreds of alleged child molesters '' `` These claims of abuse were not swept under the carpet and ignored , '' an expert says .
The Boy Scouts of America commissioned the `` independent review '' of its `` perversion files '' by a former FBI agent and an attorney for victims who have sued it over sexual abuse in their youth programs. A newspaper study of files said Scouts `` failed to report hundreds of alleged child molesters '' `` These claims of abuse were not swept under the carpet and ignored , '' an expert says .