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  • Adult Leader

    I was a venture scout and when I helped the leader with younger scouts he touched my breasts. I was over 16 and he is now dead and I was in a first aid demonstration.

    It was because of scouting that I went drinking with him and the last time i did I woke at his house to find he was undressing me. I went back to his house having had a drink on many occasions and I believe he got me drunk on purpose.

    I saw him on the odd occasion in the years following but I felt a bit afraid I might see him. I didn’t report it in 1987 because I had been drinking and I was 19 then.

    A scout leader in the 1980s locked the door of the scout hut and my relative could not get in and he left scouts. The leader also had had a drink while the scouts were there.