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‘Love for Linda’ Benefit Concert
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and her band w hile she u n d er
goes treatm ent.
L a R h o n d a S te e le , A n d y
S tokes, P atrick L am b, L lo y d
J o n e s , D K S te w a r t, S o n n y
H essm , N W W om en in R & B ,
Janice S croggins, Lisa M ann,
N orm an S y lv ester, and o th er
special guests, are lined up to
p erfo rm . T here w ill be tw o
show s, from 6 p.m . to 8 p.m .,
and from 9 p.m . to 11 p.m . T ic k
ets for each show are $25 in
advance and are available online
at tick etto m ato .co m .
H o m b u c k le ’s pow erful band,
D oug L ew is on guitar, R andy
M onroe on bass, Lenn R ussell
on drum s and L ouis Pain on
keyboards, continues w hile she
b e g in s h e r c a n c e r tre a tm e n t,
backing such guest vocalists as
A n d y S to k e s and L a R h o n d a
Steel. T he band w ill back sev
eral guest stars at the “ L ove for
L inda” benefit.
M ore details on the N ov. 11
lineup will follow clo ser to the
event.
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Child Abuse Covered Up for Decades
Boy Scouts ‘perversion files' made public
(AP) — Again and again, decade
after decade, an array of authorities
— police chiefs, prosecutors, pas
tors and local Boy Scout leaders
among them — quietly shielded
scoutmasters and others accused
of molesting children, a newly
opened trove of confidential papers
shows.
At the time, those authorities jus
tified their actions as necessary to
protect the good name and good
works of Scouting, a pillar of 20th
century America. But as detailed in
14,500 pages of secret "perversion
files" released Thursday by order of
the Oregon Supreme Court, their
maneuvers allowed sexual preda
tors to go free while victims suffered
in silence.
The files are a window on a much
larger collection of documents the
Boy Scouts of America began col
lecting soon after their founding in
1910. The files, kept at Boy Scout
headquarters in Texas, consist of
memos from local and national Scout
executives, handwritten letters from
victims and their parents and news
paper clippings about legal cases.
The files contain details about
proven molesters, but also unsub
stantiated allegations.
The allegations stretch across
the country and to military bases
overseas, from a small town in the
Adirondacks to downtown Los
Angeles.
At the news conference Thurs
day, Portland attorney Kelly Clark
blasted the Boy Scouts for their
continuing legal battles to try to
keep the full trove of files secret.
"You do not keep secrets hidden
about dangers to children," said
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Portland attorney Kelly Clark examines some of the 14,500
pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy
Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the
organization, in preparation for releasing the documents on
Thursday. (AP photo)
Clark, who in 2010 won a landmark
lawsuit against the Boy Scouts on
behalf o f a plaintiff who was mo
lested by an assistant scoutmaster
in the 1980s.
Clark's colleague, attorney Paul
Mones, said the files "show how
pedophiles operate, how child m o
lesters infiltrate youth organiza
tions."
"These guys (abusers) basically
were in a candy store, the way they
thought about it," Mones said.
The files were shown to a jury in
a 2010 Oregon civil suit that the
Scouts lost, and the Oregon Su
preme Court ruled the files should
be made public. After months of
objections and redactions, the
Scouts and Clark released them.
In many instances — more than
a third, according to the Scouts'
own count — police weren't told
t
about the reports o f abuse. And
even when they were, sometimes
local law enforcement still did noth
ing, seeking to protect the name of
Scouting over their victims.
Victims like three brothers, grow
ing up in northeast Louisiana.
On the afternoon o f Aug. 10,
1965, th eir d istrau g h t m other
walked into the third floor o f the
O uachita Parish S h eriffs Office.
A 31-year-old scoutm aster, she
told the chief crim inal deputy, had
raped one o f her sons and m o
lested two others.
Six days later, the scoutmaster,
an unemployed airplane mechanic,
sat down in front o f a microphone in
the same station, said he under
stood his rights and confessed: He
had sexually abused the woman's
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