Residents from the Downers Grove, Villa Park, Carol Stream and Wheaton communities are included in a database released by the Los Angeles Times this week that lists more than 1,200 men and women who have been categorized as “ineligible volunteers” by the Boy Scouts of America.
This database was released after an Oregon Supreme Court ruling from earlier this year took effect and made the information about these volunteers public.
Information dates back from the late 1940s to as recently as January 2005.
The database lists Robert H. Scanlan of Downers Grove, who was categorized as an ineligible volunteer after an incident in 1967 where he ordered a Scout to undress during a campout and fondled the boy’s genitals, the information in the database states. When the boy threatened to tell his parents, Scanlan hit him, and said he would get similar treatment if he told anyone, according to the report.
A Villa Park man named Robert F. DeCesare was cited in the database for an incident that happened in 1977 where he touched a Scout’s genitals after a troop meeting and requested that the boy do the same to him, the report stated.
The database also listed two cases from 2003 and one from 1989 out of Wheaton, but no associated names were listed. A 1987 case out of Carol Stream did not have names or incident reports included, either.
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