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Read and try and understand other people’s experiences and stories from abuse in the Scouts. If there’s anything here that is triggering, know that there are people who can help. If you feel inspired or confident enough, please share your story.

 

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  • Sexual Abuse

    My story is actually an observation about the lack of safeguarding in the Scouts. I worked with a ma…

  • Sexual Abuse

    My story happened in the 1970’s.

    I attended cubs as child and was abused by a so called leader on…

  • Adult Leader

    I never really wanted to join the scouts but my older brother was in it and I think my mum thought i…

  • Physical Abuse

    I joined the Scouts after some peer pressure saying it was something fun to do in the evenings. I wa…

  • Sexual Abuse

    After the local scout leader kissed me, he told me it would be ok if we had had sex because he had h…

  • Emotional Abuse

    This is not a story of sexual assault, but I did have an experience of the adults running a troop ly…

  • Pre 2014

    My brother was in the scouts in the 70s. His leader would come to our house on a Saturday and take m…

  • Sexual Abuse

    I was sexually abused by a Scout leader when I was 12, back in the mid ‘70s – thankfully I only su…

  • Sexual Abuse

    Whilst collecting my toddler child I walked into a sitting room where my younger cousin and his frie…

  • Sexual Abuse

    It was when I was 17 and kept my pony on a field near my parents home in *****.
    A Scout Master also…