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“These victims, and their parents, placed their trust and confidence in the Boy Scouts, and the Scouts let them down,” attorney Chris Hurley said in a statement. “When abuse was reported, BSA turned its back and not only ignored the victims, but continued to let Hacker snake through the system.”
Documents show that Boy Scouts had a confidential file on Hacker in 1970 based on reports that he’d been arrested in Indiana for sexually assaulting boys in scouting and at a school where he taught. The arrest led to a felony conviction, yet Hacker resurfaced as a scoutmaster in the Chicago suburbs in 1971 and by the end of that year had been arrested again.
Hurley said Hacker moved from council to council over two decades.
