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[quote=Anonymous]Every dimension of child abuse is so thoroughly terrible that society’s previous reaction to it through the years was deformed beyond reason.  I’ve read enough to gather that reactions to discovery of an incident ranged from: “Let’s keep it secret so as to not harm the reputation of the child” to “let’s kill the perpetrator” and everything in between.  In earlier decades, even law enforcement personnel sometimes believed taking action might somehow be harmful to a child.  Thankfully, all of this changed in the early 80s.  In a youth services organization setting, child abuse is prevented and detected if it is taken seriously by the organization.

Since the early 80s the BSA policy has been very clear – take immediate action to halt any abuse observed to be in-progress and immediately report actual or suspected incidents directly to law enforcement.  Scoutmasters and other Scouting volunteers are “mandatory reporters”, so do not attempt any jokes or humor about this subject with them.  All BSA volunteers are trained in this reporting procedure and in elaborate anti-abuse prevention and detection procedures.  These very detailed regulations are far beyond the scope of this brief posting, but are comprehensive.  In our Scouts BSA Troop, the leaders probably spend at least 20% of our planning time just mapping out how to assure compliance with these youth protection requirements.  Every minute is worth it to assure safety for our youth participants.
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