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92
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82
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82
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96
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96
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86
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86
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79
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83
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81
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78
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85
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80
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83
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79
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81
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94
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75 Albany
79
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84
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90
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87
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85 Elko 86
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81
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104
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84
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83
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88
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87
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79
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85
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86
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87
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94
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81
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78
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81
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72
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80
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Rapids
80
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84
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89
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80
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80
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95
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99
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Orleans
92
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90
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85
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82
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86
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82
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86
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90
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84
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93
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97
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94
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96
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90
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92
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84
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73
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107
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82
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86
Fresno
92
Eureka
66
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74
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76
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91
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94
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90
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91
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73
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74
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68
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Hawaii
Alaska
Washington
87
Cheyenne
81
Casper
90
Jackson
Hole
80
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80
Madison
81
Charleston
85
Seattle
Olympia 73 71 Spokane
76
Richmond
88
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(^72) Montpelier
65
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94
St. George
97
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101
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98
Lubbock
101
Midland-
Odessa
103
El Paso
100 Austin 102
San Antonio
101 Houston
99
Nashville
90
Memphis
89
Knoxville
89
Rapid City
(^83) Pierre
83
Sioux Falls
84
Charleston
97
Columbia
97
Harrisburg
85
Philadelphia
85
Pittsburgh
79
Burns
75
Bend
68
Portland
Salem 75
74
Oklahoma
City
101
Tulsa
95
Cincinnati
85
Cleveland
78
Columbus
83
Fargo
77
Bismarck
77
Raleigh
Charlotte^90
92
Buffalo
74 Albany
74
New York
82
Albuquerque
90
Santa Fe
86
Reno
80
Elko
Carson City^84
76
Las Vegas
101
Omaha
88
North Platte
90
Billings
86
Miles City
88
Helena
79
Kansas City
89
Jefferson City
90
St. Louis
89
Jackson
92
Mpls-St. Paul
76
Duluth
79
Detroit
81
Marquette
75
Lansing
80
Grand
Rapids
81
Boston
81
Annapolis
86
Bangor
71
Augusta
72
Baton Rouge
93
Shreveport
100
New
Orleans
92
Louisville
90
Topeka
89
Wichita
Dodge City 97 90
Des Moines
85
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84
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Springfield^84
86
Boise
82
Idaho Falls
87
Atlanta
92
Savannah
97
Tallahassee
94
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94
Tampa
90
Miami
91
Hartford
80
Denver
Aspen 75 86
San Francisco
75
Palm Springs
105
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82
Sacramento
85
Fresno
91
Eureka
66
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75
Little Rock
Phoenix 99 88
Flagstaff
75
Birmingham
90
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92
Mobile
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90
San Juan
90
Anchorage
71
Juneau
73
Fairbanks
70
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Cleveland 80/62s 78/60s
Columbia, S.C. 96/74pc 97/75s
Columbus, Ohio 83/59s 83/58s
Corpus Christi, Texas 98/77s 98/77s
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Hartford, Conn. 84/60s 80/57pc
Indianapolis 86/62s 84/64pc
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thunderstorms in the Northwest
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made it difficult for Nussbaum as a child
to come forward and be believed.
Nussbaum said he was abused when
he was 14 by Wyatt, who was a troop
leader. Nussbaum said he was invited to
the detective’s bureau for a volunteer
opportunity and found himself alone in
Wyatt’s office.
“He pulled out a gun and put it on the
table and said, ‘Nobody will ever believe
you,’ or something to the effect of that,”
Nussbaum said. “And he was right.”
Three years later, when he was 17,
Nussbaum saw an article in the Miami
Herald: Wyatt had been arrested for
abusing a 7-year-old. He’s serving a life
sentence.
Teacher
Scout leader James E. Pacitto was ac-
cused of sexual abuse by a former Scout
in multiple locations across southern
New Jersey from 1975 to 1980. Pacitto al-
legedly let the boy drive, so he could be
close, placed his hands on the boy’s ab-
domen, gave him a rub-
down, then touched him
inappropriately.
That allegation comes
from another client of
the attorneys behind
abusedinscouting.com
and Monday’s lawsuit.
Several years later, a
16-year-old boy told police Pacitto
touched his genitals at a cabin in Laurel
Lake in January 1988, according to news
reports at the time. Pacitto was arrested
the next day by Millville police.
By then, Pacitto was a sixth grade
teacher at Rieck Elementary. News of
Pacitto’s arrest reached the school
board. It voted to take no action “be-
cause the charges had not been sub-
stantiated.”
A grand jury indicted Pacitto on
charges of criminal sexual conduct a
month after his arrest. A month later,
Millville’s school board voted again to
allow Pacitto to continue teaching de-
spite the indictment, noting the charges
did not occur while he was teaching.
Soon after, he was honored by the
New Jersey governor with a teaching ex-
cellence award and given $1,000 to use
in his classroom.
In an undercover sting operation in
2017 by the Hillsborough County Sher-
iff ’s Office in Florida, according to court
records, Pacitto was caught at a public
park known as a place for sex acts. Pa-
citto, then 78, was convicted of battery
and of entering a place of lewdness.
Pacitto could not be reached for com-
ment.
School employee
Troop 95 leader Bert Andress worked
in the maintenance department of a vo-
cational school in New Jersey. He sexu-
ally abused three boys at the school and
at his house from 1988 to 1991. At least
two were members of his troop, accord-
ing to the Asbury Park Press.
According to new accounts brought
to the law firm, Andress abused two
brothers more than a decade earlier.
In 1992, Andress was indicted by a
grand jury on 14 counts of sexual mis-
conduct and endangering the welfare of
a child in the later case. He pleaded
guilty to engaging in oral sex with the
boys.
At the time, Joe DeCanio, the Scout-
ing executive in the area, told the Couri-
er-Post in New Jersey that volunteers
were questioned about their criminal
pasts, but the organization assumed
that a troop’s sponsor, such as a church
group, had done the vetting. He said no
leaders received criminal background
checks.
Boy Scouts of America said that to-
day, all Scout leaders are given criminal
background checks.
Pension records show Andress was
an employee of Camden County Tech-
nical Schools until 2014, retiring with 12
years of service. He still draws his
monthly pension. He could not be
reached for comment.
Auxiliary state trooper
Donald Dennis was sued in 2015 by 17
men and two women who alleged he
abused them for years in the 1960s and
1970s, according to news reports. The
News-Times in Connecticut reported
that a state police spokesperson con-
firmed Dennis was an auxiliary state
trooper, part of a volunteer force that
enforces state laws on highways.
Boy Scouts of America was named in
the lawsuit, which said the organization
should have known Dennis was danger-
ous.
In a new allegation, a former Scout
said he was abused by Dennis in 1967.
On a camping trip, Dennis came around
for “bed check” and fondled him, the
former Scout said, telling the child that
his “parents did not deserve such a fine
boy for a son.” Dennis, who is deceased,
is not listed in the Boy Scouts’ ineligible
volunteer files, but his assistant is.
The 2015 suit was dismissed last year
because the statute of limitations had
passed.
Police officer
Arnold Edward Codispoti abused one
Scout for years, starting in 1977, accord-
ing to a new allegation. The former
Scout said Codispoti molested him on
Scouting trips and campouts.
In 1986, Codispoti pleaded guilty to
sexual abuse. He served six years in
prison and nine years on parole, accord-
ing to a public information officer for the
New Jersey Department of Corrections.
He was added to the Boy Scouts’ inel-
igible volunteer files after sentencing.
A 19-year veteran of the Essex County
Police Department in New Jersey, Cod-
ispoti was accused of plying children
with alcohol before he abused them. He
could not be reached for comment.
Volunteer firefighter
James Buxton pleaded guilty to 18
counts of felony child molestation in
1990 and was sentenced to 42 years in
prison, according to the Los Angeles
Times. He was added to the Boy Scouts’
ineligible volunteer files after the
charge.
Aformer Scout who is a client with
Abused in Scouting said he was abused
by Buxton. It’s unclear whether the alle-
gation is part of the same case.
Buxton started Wonder Valley’s Boy
Scout Troop 341 and was its Scout-
master. It has been disbanded.
According to the Times, Assistant
Scoutmaster David Reed pleaded guilty
to 16 counts of felony molestation and
was sentenced to 38 years in prison.
In a civil case from 1991, a jury award-
ed $3.75 million in damages to the fam-
ilies of three boys whom Buxton molest-
ed in 1988, the Times reported.
Church youth leader
Jack LaHolt, a onetime Boy Scout
leader and Mormon church youth leader
in Kent, Washington, had numerous al-
legations made against him during the
early to mid-1970s, and one of the law
firm’s clients names him.
Court records show that the allega-
tions were brought before two church
bishops but were never reported to law
enforcement authorities. The docu-
ments indicate one of the bishops re-
moved LaHolt from the Boy Scout pro-
gram and referred him to sexual devian-
cy therapy through the church, where he
was treated for about a year. He re-
turned to the Scouts and was reelevated
to Scoutmaster of his former troop.
LaHolt, also known as LoHolt, moved
to Canada and could not be reached for
comment. In a story in the Seattle Post-
Intelligencer in 2004, LaHolt denied the
accusations made in a civil lawsuit, but
he admitted abusing other children.
“I don’t let that happen anymore,” he
said. “I don’t even get near anybody like
that – people who set me up. I don’t have
anything to do with kids.”
Sunday school teacher
A former Scout accused Charles Don-
ald Corley, a revered businessman and
pillar of the Alabama town where he vol-
unteered with Boy Scout Troop 97 and
taught Sunday school at Trinity United
Methodist Church. Corley was involved
with the youth choir and youth counsel-
ing, according to the Birmingham News.
In 1995, he pleaded guilty to three
counts of sexual abuse and two counts
of sodomy. According to an AL.com re-
port in 2017, authorities said he’d left a
trail of abuse over more than 30 years,
with as many as 120 victims.
Corley was sentenced to 30 years in
prison. With the accrual of time for good
behavior, his sentence is set to end next
April.
Contributing: Rachel Axon, David
Heath, Mark Nichols, Lindsay Schnell,
Marisa Kwiatkowski
Scouts
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Pacitto
The list of alleged
abusers, obtained by
USA TODAY, details
molestation ranging
from fondling to
sodomy.