'He pulled out a gun and put it on the table and said, ‘Nobody will ever believe you.''
Cara Kelly and Nick PenzenstadlerIn their off hours, the men organized camping trips and merit badge training. During the day, working as teachers, counselors and police officers, they were similarly surrounded by children. Résumés betrayed no signs of the danger the men posed.
A review of the list and victims’ allegations reveals a disturbingly common detail: Beyond Scouts, many of the accused were in positions to protect, mentor and nurture children. That raises questions about whether top Scouting officials could have warned authorities but didn't, allowing the men to strike again.Michael Nussbaum, 57, is making his allegations public for the first time, as one of nearly 800 clients of the attorneys who filed Monday’s lawsuit in Pennsylvania state court.
Three years later, when he was 17, Nussbaum saw an article in the Miami Herald: Wyatt had been arrested for abusing a 7-year-old. He’s serving a life sentence.Scout leader James E. Pacitto was accused of sexual abuse by a former Scout in multiple locations across southern New Jersey from 1975 to 1980. Pacitto allegedly let the boy drive, so he could be close, placed his hands on the boy’s abdomen, gave him a rubdown, then touched him inappropriately.
A grand jury indicted Pacitto on charges of criminal sexual conduct a month after his arrest. A month later, Millville’s school board voted again to allow Pacitto to continue teaching despite the indictment, noting the charges did not occur while he was teaching.Soon after, he was honored by the New Jersey governor with a teaching excellence award and given $1,000 to use in his classroom.
Donald Dennis was sued in 2015 by 17 men and two women who alleged he abused them for years in the 1960s and 1970s, according to news reports. The News-Times in Connecticut reported that a state police spokesperson confirmed Dennis was an auxiliary state trooper, part of a volunteer force that enforces state laws on highways.
In 1986, Codispoti pleaded guilty to sexual abuse. He served six years in prison and nine years on parole, according to a public information officer for the New Jersey Department of Corrections.A 19-year veteran of the Essex County Police Department in New Jersey, Codispoti was accused of plying children with alcohol before he abused them.James Buxton pleaded guilty to 18 counts of felony child molestation in 1990 and was sentenced to 42 years in prison, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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