Boy Scouts of America sex abuse cases

The Los Angeles Times investigation of the Boy Scouts' "perversion files," 2012 For decades the Boy Scouts kept a confidential blacklist of men expelled over suspected abuse, locked in filing cabinets at headquarters, and fought in court to keep it private. The Times examined more than 1,200 of those files from 1970 to 1991 and found more than 125 cases in which men allegedly went on molesting Scouts after the organization had received detailed allegations against them. The paper later published an online database of nearly 5,000 cases from 1947 to 2005. It is the strongest example here of records journalism: the institution's own paperwork, read closely, made the case.