http://spreadsheets.latimes.com/boyscouts-cases/ The 'Perversion files'

This data­base con­tains in­form­a­tion on about 5,000 men and a hand­ful of wo­men who were ex­pelled from the Boy Scouts of Amer­ica between 1947 and Janu­ary 2005 on sus­pi­cion of sexu­al ab­use. The dots on the map in­dic­ate the loc­a­tion of troops con­nec­ted in some way to the ac­cused. The timeline be­low shows the volume of cases opened by year; however, an un­known num­ber of files were purged by the Scouts pri­or to the early 1990s. The data are de­rived from con­fid­en­tial Scout­ing files sub­mit­ted as evid­ence in court cases.

http://archive.is/7hMWY Boy Scout files show nearly 20 sex-abuse cases with New Orleans connections

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/10/boy_scout_files_show_nearly_20.html http://archive.is/7hMWY Updated on October 20, 2012 at 7:16 PM Posted on October 20, 2012 at  By Claire Galofaro, NOLA.com The Times-Picayune

More than 70 Louisiana cases are listed among the "perversion files" -- a vast, long-secret collection of documents chronicling men cast out of the Boy Scouts of America over the past six decades because, in many cases, they were suspected of being child molesters. Nearly 20 of the cases have a connection to New Orleans -- a city particularly salient in the history of the Scouts as the site of the organization's first well-known sex-abuse scandal 36 years ago.

Troop 137, authorities learned, "was the nucleus of a nationwide sex and pornography ring, with boys recruited into the troop sent to other states for the pleasure of the men there," according to a Times-Picayune report on the trials. Seventeen adults were arrested, including the four New Orleans Scout leaders, a Tennessee minister who ran a home for wayward boys, an official from a Florida school for children with learning disabilities, a prominent New Orleans landscape painter and a Boston millionaire, Richard C. Jacobs. http://archive.is/7hMWY

Troop leader Richard Halverson (51), a probation officer and foster father to two boys who were wards of the state, and assistant leaders Raymond (Tom) Woodall and Harry Cramer, used boys for sex and porn.  Richard C. Jacobs, a Boston millionaire, was indicted on 15 counts as a participant in these crimes. The men, along with Lewis Sialle, who was not named in the Scouts' files, decided in 1974 to found a Boy Scout unit, Troop 137 in eastern New Orleans, in order to "provide them with boys ... for their sexual pleasure," Sialle later testified. http://archive.is/bweWj#selection-1121.0-1144.1

The confidential files, kept secret for decades in the Boy Scouts' Texas headquarters, were compiled in a database released Thursday by the Los Angeles Times.

That newspaper's investigation found that, across the country, the Scouts sometimes "failed to report abuse to authorities and many times apparently covered up allegations to protect the organization's reputation." The Scouts issued an apology Thursday for past actions.

June 20, 1985 NYT: Altar boys and members of the parish Boy Scout troop were among those molested by the Rev. Gilbert Gauthe, 40 years old, according to felony charges of sexual abuse lodged against him by the local authorities.

He Was a Boy Scout Chaplain

The Rt. Rev. Gerard Frey, Bishop of the Lafayette Diocese, acknowledged in a legal deposition taken in connection with the civil suits that he confronted the priest in 1974.

A Reminder in New Jersey

''We don't want to give the impression that it's a rampant problem for the church, because it is not,'' said the Rev. Kenneth Doyle, a spokesman for the United States Catholic Conference in Washington. ''But even one case is too many.''

''He's going to admit it all,'' Mr. Mouton said. ''We will prove that he did those things. To do otherwise would force all these kids to come into the courtroom and testify.'' http://archive.is/GhAnH

The Gauthe Brothers:

Luck and the Catholic Church had kept him (Gilbert) out of jail for years. He had been an active pedophile since his youth, when both he and his younger brother, Richard, a Boy Scout leader, had molested scores of children. Richard Gauthe, who had been ousted from the Air Force and the Scouts for abusing children..

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news13/1998_11_01_HoustonChronicle_JudgesIntervention_Gilbert_Gauthe_1.htm http://archive.is/vdtgJ

Special Justice served for Gilbert Gauthe

"Then (Stansbury) said Judge Politz told him he had talked with the bishop in Lafayette, the archbishop in New Orleans, Paul Phelps (former head of the state prison system) and Gov. Edwin Edwards about Gauthe.

"In my mind it was clear that whatever was going on was wrong," Mouton said. "I wrote a letter to both Gauthe and Judge Politz and I quit, withdrew as Gauthe's attorney and never again had any contact with either Gauthe or Judge Politz."

By that time, Gauthe no longer wanted to be moved from Wade where Richard Stalder, current head of the state prison system and a man who describes Politz as "a friend and a mentor," was then warden.

Gauthe was given special status there. Despite the terms of his conviction, he was never given Depo-Provera at Wade. He was housed in a maximum-security area where he was assigned one of the few air-conditioned rooms in the building as his "office."

It was a glass enclosure in which he did oil painting and made signs for Stalder; those paintings soon covered the windows, hiding Gauthe from view.

Behind those paintings, current and former guards say, Gauthe was allowed to carry on sexual trysts with teen-age prisoners he chose as assistants. He was given his pick among the juveniles who had been tried as adults and were housed in Wade's maximum-security area.

Periodically, Gauthe would be visited by Politz and Monsignor Murray Clayton of Shreveport, La. The pair became regular visitors to Gauthe and the late Robert Melancon, another convicted pedophile priest who has since died of AIDS (SEE CORRECTION). Also present during those meetings were Gauthe's friends, murderer [name redacted], who was one of Gauthe's teen-age assistants, and [name redacted], an adult prisoner then serving time for robbery.

In addition, Gauthe's favorable treatment extended beyond the walls of Wade. He was granted extended furloughs to visit his ailing mother. These furloughs ranged from weeks to a month, during which he spent his nights in the Napoleonville jail and his days at his mother's bedside.

According to prison guards, Gauthe was exempt from many of the rules in Wade. Several of those officers requested anonymity, although one, retired Lt. Greg Faust, said he conducted a search of Gauthe's office.

"I had written him up at least 20 times for various violations," said Faust, "mostly putting his hands on other prisoners, fondling them in the halls, and nothing happened.

"Officers would tell him to keep his hands off the other prisoners and he'd just look at you and tell you to leave him alone.

"Then, one night, several of us decided to have a look in that office of his."

In a desk, said Faust, he found pornographic cartoons drawn by Gauthe and a plastic bag filled with pubic hair.

"I stapled the bag and the drawings to an infraction report and turned it in," said Faust. "Not only did nothing happen to Gauthe, the next day I was told (by a superior officer) to stay out of his personal effects."

Nor did Gauthe spend 20 years or even half that time in prison. With the aid of attorneys secured by Politz, Gauthe was released in 1995 after serving less than nine years.