Description:Culling data from court records and interviews with both Boy Scout officials and admitted molesters, this expose of sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts shows how and why the molesters have gotten away with their crimes
Scout's Honor
details decades of sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts, one of the country's
most respected youth organizations. Drawing on interviews with victims,
lawyers, prosecutors, and even convicted molesters, Patrick Boyle
paints a distressing but accurate picture of betrayal in a place we all
thought was safe.About the Author
Patrick Boyle
is a veteran journalist whose reports on child abuse, mental illness,
and drug addiction have won awards from the Society of Professional
Journalists, the National Headliner Awards, the Missouri School of
Journalism, and others. He has been a reporter for many newspapers,
including the Washington Times, and a freelance reporter for the New York Times, ABC News, Woman's Day, Spy, and the American Journalism Review.