The walls of the man’s apartment were covered with photos of half-clothed boys, Aqua said.ĭillow said the BSA now has strong policies against any kind of child abuse. He was a highly successful recruiter, Aqua said, who built Troop 120 to among the largest in the council.Īqua, who eventually became an Eagle Scout, said the scoutmaster regularly took him and other young boys to his apartment, where he had them dress in scanty “Indian costumes” and took photos of them before abusing them. The scoutmaster, who is dead, was a soldier at Fort Lewis at the time of the abuses, Aqua said. Scouting executives knew about the abuses but did nothing about them, Aqua said in an interview Wednesday.ĭoug Dillow, Scout executive at Pacific Harbors Council, said Wednesday that he had not seen the lawsuit and couldn’t comment on it. In his complaint, Aqua says the Scout leader coerced him into dozens of deviant sexual acts in 19 while he was a member of Troop 120, sponsored by Lakewood Methodist Church. If I could save one boy from having to go through what I did, it’s worth it to me.”
“This is a road to healing for me,” Aqua said, “but I also feel it is a moral obligation. It isn’t the California transplants, I have been here since 1967 and I recognized right off the bat that there is a weird vibe here.Ī Tacoma man is suing the Boy Scouts of America, alleging his scoutmaster repeatedly sexually abused him when he was a Scout in Lakewood 34 years ago.ĭave Aqua, 47, an Air Force veteran and a registered nurse, named the national scouting organization and the local Pacific Harbors Council in his lawsuit, which he filed Wednesday in Pierce County Superior Court. Ya’ know, if my mom wanted to protect us from perverts she would have had to move us completely out of the Puget Sound metropolitan area, the entire apregion is absolutely crawling with perverts and freaks.
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