Former Boy Scouts’ Head of Abuse Prevention Says Group Is Still Unsafe for Kids

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Michael Johnson, who led the Boy Scouts’ abuse-prevention program till last December, says the group still does not properly protect children from sexual abuse, including youth-on-youth abuse

The former youth protection director of the Boy Scouts of America accused the organization of failing to fix its system for protecting children from sexual predators, allegations that come as the group lobbies thousands of sex-abuse victims to support a settlement offer to end its bankruptcy.

The allegations of Michael Johnson, who left the Boy Scouts in December, come at a sensitive time for the youth group, which is seeking the votes of sex-abuse survivors for a bankruptcy restructuring that would resolve 82,200 claims of childhood abuse. Votes are due by mid-December on the settlement offer,

 

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