Thomas Hacker Victims and Acquaintances Speak Out
Former colleagues, scouts and youth baseball league players recount the missed cues of the Boy Scouts' most prolific serial pedophile.
Thomas Hacker
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Thomas Hacker Victims and Acquaintances Speak Out
Former colleagues, scouts and youth baseball league players recount the missed cues of the Boy Scouts' most prolific serial pedophile.
Among the many red flags that stood out about convicted child sex predator Thomas Hacker were the shorts he wore coaching games and running the concession stand at Westside Baseball in the early 1980s. Connect with Patch: Oak Lawn / Beverly-Mt. Greenwood / Evergreen Park He liked to wear them pulled high over his waist so that they barely covered his thighs, recalled Bill Olsen, who was 12 years old when he played for Hacker on the Westside's all-star team, circa 1980. “I found him odd, just the way he presented himself,” Olsen said. “Just hearing the name gives me chills. Even talking about it right now I get a little angry.” Hacker was convicted in 1989 on multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault against three Boy Scouts, ages 11 and…
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Thomas Hacker had a hot temper and physically abused students when he taught at School 57 in Indianapolis. He threw a girl across the classroom during class because she didn't hear his instructions on the new seat assignments. He beat boys in the hallway outside his classroom and this was called discipline. The teaching staff and administrators sent problem students to him for discipline. … more ›