Boy Scout National Director Charged With Child Porn

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7326932/

DALLAS, Texas - The national director of programs for the Boy Scouts of America has been charged with receiving and distributing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's office here told NBC News on Tuesday.

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Douglas S. Smith Jr. was charged with one felony count of having photos that show "minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct."

Sources in the U.S. Attorney's office told NBC that Smith was expected to plead guilty.

The images were of young boys and the investigation started in Germany, the sources added.

In a statement Tuesday, the Boy Scouts of America said it had no indication of prior criminal activity.

[NinjaPoodle]

full story on New york Times


.....A spokesman for the United States attorney's office, Kathy Colvin, said Mr. Smith was charged in a single count under "Operator Predator" in an information, a government charge that is used instead of an indictment when a defendant is expected to plead guilty. "We anticipate he will plead guilty tomorrow," she said. The charge carries a penalty of between 5 and 20 years in prison plus a lifetime of supervision.

In 2002, Mr. Smith announced an Internet training program called Youth Protection Guidelines for Adult Leaders and Parents.

[Rudey]

Boys or girls?

-Rudey

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by Rudey
Boys or girls?

-Rudey

The images were of young boys and the investigation started in Germany, the sources added.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi

How'd he feel about not letting gays into the boy scouts?

-Rudey

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by Rudey
How'd he feel about not letting gays into the boy scouts?

-Rudey

oh let me just call his cellphone and ask him.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
oh let me just call his cellphone and ask him.

I believe in you.

-Rudey

[Senusret I]

Originally posted by Rudey
How'd he feel about not letting gays into the boy scouts?

-Rudey

He leans toward allowing the Boy Scouts to remain discriminatory:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache...2gays%22&hl=en

Corporate Legal Times

September, 2004

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR; Pg. 10

Boy Scout Pride

Dear Editor:

Bruce Collins is mistaken when he calls Boy Scouts a "fundamentally different" organization from the one he joined 40 years ago. ["An Eagle Scout Takes Issue With Group's Politics" July, p. 7]. Boy Scouts is the same organization with the same values and goals. What is fundamentally different, however, is our times.

Some intolerant elements in our society want to force scouting to abandon its values and to become fundamentally different. They want scouting to forego its constitutional rights, affirmed in 2000 by the Supreme Court in BSA v. Dale, and adopt fundamentally different values from the ones that helped shape the character of Mr. Collins and 106 million other young men over the past 94 years.

It bothers Mr. Collins that scouting is defending itself, even though he acknowledged that it has been "dragged into" the "culture war." He says the tone of our legal-issues web site, bsalegal.org, is defensive. The site does seek to defend our values and to inform the public about the three-decade-long legal assault on scouting. That we need a legal-issues web site is testament to the fact that our constitutional rights are under attack.

Clearly, Mr. Collins longs for a time when the Boy Scout organization could give its undivided attention to the "good stuff" of Scouting: "camping and life skills ..." So do we. Mr. Collins would do well to communicate his displeasure to those directing their discriminatory assault against his beloved Boy Scouts -- the ACLU.

Douglas S. Smith Jr.
National Director of Program
Boy Scouts of America

[James]

Everyone needs a hobby.

[qteasied]

"Some intolerant elements in our society want to force scouting to abandon its values and to become fundamentally different. They want scouting to forego its constitutional rights, affirmed in 2000 by the Supreme Court in BSA v. Dale, and adopt fundamentally different values from the ones that helped shape the character of Mr. Collins and 106 million other young men over the past 94 years."--Douglas Smith, Jr.



So, let me get this straight. This guy is a perv who keeps pics of little boys in his stash, but refuses to believe his organization should allow grown men who have consenting sex with other grown men for moral reasons? Who's the intolerant one in this situation?

I'm not putting down the BSA as an org, but I'm bothered by this. That's not the way you shape the minds of young men. He can't be the only one who has this problem. Look at the Church as an example.

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

What is interesting is that the Scout Executive knows that the average pedophile/child abuser is a middle aged white male with very strong religious beliefs. That's who they always catch whenever this comes up. They even hired a consulting firm to gather statistics on the matter, and that is what the consulting firm told them.

Yet what do their policies encourage? Middle aged white men with strong religious beliefs as leaders. (Honestly, moms are much better scoutmasters and other leaders in my opinion.)

[James]

Female Strippers make the best scout masters actually . . . it encourages attendance.