Sex Offender Scout Master Sued by Man With Supressed Abuse Memories
The former Burbank resident is also suing the Boy Scouts of America.
An unidentified man is suing the Boy Scouts of America and a sex offender former scoutmaster for allegedly abusing him for two years in the 1980s. "This is a travesty," Chicago attorney Christopher Hurley said of the abuse allegedly suffered by his client at the hands of convicted sex offender and former scoutmaster Thomas Hacker. "The Boy Scouts have known they've had a problem in their organization for decades," Hurley said. Hacker, 76, has been declared a sexually dangerous person and is serving an indefinite sentence in Big Muddy River Correctional Center. He has sex crime convictions out of Cook, Kendall and Kankakee counties. Hacker's name was found among the 1,200 or so secret "perversion" files compiled by the Boy Scouts. The files…
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Karen
3:03 pm on Saturday, December 8, 2012
What about all of the school systems that this creep was in? From Indianapolis to Chicago Public Schools and even the schools of the Archdiocese of Chicago -this man had a pattern that was known long before he was a scout leader. I hope he is suing all of the school districts, too. more ›