I was sexually assaulted by two separate leaders. The first, an ex RAF officer who photographed me a…
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Sexual Abuse
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Sexual Abuse
Nearly 80 years ago, I joined a well respected scout group in *****, to which a number of my schoolm…
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Sexual Abuse
Cub scouts
My brother joined the local cub scout group 2 years before me.
I b…
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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…
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Sexual Abuse
My story happened in the 1970’s.
I attended cubs as child and was abused by a so called leader on…
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Adult Leader
I never really wanted to join the scouts but my older brother was in it and I think my mum thought i…
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Physical Abuse
I joined the Scouts after some peer pressure saying it was something fun to do in the evenings. I wa…
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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…
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Emotional Abuse
This is not a story of sexual assault, but I did have an experience of the adults running a troop ly…
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Pre 2014
My brother was in the scouts in the 70s. His leader would come to our house on a Saturday and take m…