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IT'S meant to be a symbol of trust and honour - yet for Mary DeMuth, the sight of a Boy Scouts uniform sends a sharp, sickening pain through her stomach.
She was just five when she says she was repeatedly raped by two teenage American Boy Scouts, who brutally violated her in woodland and even passed her around their pals.
Mary, then barely out of nursery, claims the boys abused her five afternoons a week, after knocking on her babysitter's door and innocently asking: "Can Mary come out and play?"
They would take her to a ravine and even one of their homes - where, she says, they'd rape her in a bunk bed while the boy's mum baked chocolate chip cookies in the kitchen.
Often, the teen boy's scoutmaster father would also be home - and Mary has no doubt he was aware of what was unfolding behind the doors of his son's bedroom in Seattle, Washington.
"There was no grooming, the boys just raped me," the married mum of three tells Sun Online.
"They took their turns. They said that if I told, they’d kill my parents."
She adds: "I don't know how the scoutmaster couldn't be aware.
"Personally, if I had teenage boys and they had a five-year-old girl they kept bringing over and putting in their room, I'd see it as suspicious and put an end to it."
Mary, now 53 and living in Texas, is bravely waiving her anonymity to speak out about her horrific ordeal, as the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) faces a blizzard of sex abuse lawsuits.
On the surface, the BSA has been a pillar of American life for generations, offering kids aged between 11 and 17 the chance to go on exciting adventures, learn new skills and make friends.
But now, thousands of people, mostly men, have accused scoutmasters, troop leaders and other scouts of abusing them - in what one survivor tells us was "a secret culture of paedophilia".
Many claim the BSA has spent decades 'covering up' abuse and failing to prevent further attacks.
This week, amid the spate of lawsuits - many made possible by recent changes in US state laws to allow victims to sue over historic abuse - the 110-year-old organisation filed for bankruptcy protection, saying the move would enable it to create a huge compensation fund for victims that could top $1 billion (£774m).
Yet for many survivors, no amount of money will make up for their decades of anguish.
"The abuse I suffered radically altered the course of my life," says plumber Aaron Averhart, 45, who claims he was molested, raped and choked by a Scout camp leader in Florida from the age of 12.
"I have been crippled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety. After the fourth year of abuse, I had endured all I could and began contemplating suicide.
"I started drinking at 12 to cope with my situation, and began smoking pot at 13. That would lead to decades of substance abuse.
"I stopped putting any effort into school, turned inward emotionally and grew very depressed. I was scared people would discover my secret for a long time."
It's a devastating chain of events that Mary knows all too well.
She claims she still has vivid memories of being led into the woods and raped by her teenage assailants, even though she was of kindergarten age - the US equivalent of reception - at the time.
"It started in a ravine, where people would be walking above. They put their hands on my mouth so I couldn't scream," recalls Mary, now a speaker and author .
She adds that the boys would pounce at around noon, when she had finished kindergarten and was being looked after by an elderly babysitter, while her mum, a teacher, was at work.
"I distinctly remember what they said to my babysitter: 'Can Mary come out and play?'," she says, explaining that the pair, aged around 15 to 17, were known to the sitter.
"I knew I didn't deserve what they were doing."
Desperate to escape the recurrent abuse, little Mary would pretend to be asleep.
But still, she says, the terrifying attacks continued - and escalated - until the boys began inviting their pals to join in and shamelessly bringing her back to one of their homes.
"They took me into the back room - there were bunk beds - and assaulted me while their scout father was nearby and their mother was baking cookies in the kitchen," she claims.
"I could smell the chocolate chip cookies."
Mary - who says she was abused Monday to Friday but "I got the weekends off" - eventually revealed what was happening to her babysitter, who vowed to tell her mum.
But she says the sitter never fulfilled her promise, leading her to believe, in later years, that her own mother knew about her rape ordeal and simply "didn't care".
FOUNDED in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has been a pillar of American civic life for generations.
But this week, the historic organisation announced it had filed for bankruptcy protection in the first step toward creating a massive compensation fund for potentially thousands of sex abuse victims.
Scores of men are seeking settlements, claiming to have been molested as youngsters decades ago by scoutmasters, leaders and other scouts.
Many of the lawsuits have been made possible by recent changes in state laws to allow people to sue over long-ago sex abuse.
Bankruptcy will enable the BSA to put the cases on hold for now and continue operating - for, what it hopes will be, years to come - as it strives to "compensate victims who were harmed during their time in Scouting".
"The BSA cares deeply about all victims of abuse and sincerely apologises to anyone who was harmed during their time in Scouting," said Roger Mosby, President and Chief Executive Officer.
"We are outraged that there have been times when individuals took advantage of our programs to harm innocent children.
“While we know nothing can undo the tragic abuse that victims suffered, we believe the Chapter 11 process – with the proposed Trust structure – will provide equitable compensation to all victims while maintaining the BSA’s important mission.”
More than 12,000 boys have been molested by 7,800 abusers since the 1920s, according to Boy Scout files revealed in court papers.
Many of the new lawsuits date back to the 1960s, '70s and '80s, and accuse the BSA of negligence and cover-ups.
Today, the organisation has expert-informed policies to "keep kids safe", including mandatory background checks and a ban on one-on-one interactions between children and adults.
It was only when Mary was six that the abuse ended, when her family moved out of the area.
Yet for the next decade, she says she suffered in silence, battling suicidal thoughts aged 12 and pushing away any teenage crushes who tried to be physically intimate with her.
"I was lucky to have a school counsellor who really helped me not to take my life," she recalls. "I'm sure I had depression. I'd have flashbacks and nightmares."
Eventually, Mary courageously brought up her turmoil with her mum - and realised she'd never actually known about the abuse. "She was really sad," Mary recalls.
But due to the time that had elapsed since the rapes, and the fact she didn't know her depraved attackers' identities, she adds that there was nothing they could do.
Since then, Mary has discovered the identity of one of the boys through a hired investigator. But along with the discovery came the news that he had died in the mid-2000s.
"I was really grateful that he had," she admits.
"I didn't have to live with this fear my whole life he was hurting other people."
Another survivor, James Kretschmer – who was allegedly molested by a Scout leader over several months in Washington in the 1970s – has also been unable to get justice.
Because his dad and his abuser both worked for the US Air Force - the latter, as a respected psychologist - he says his father's job would have been at risk if he'd come forward at the time.
"I'm 56 years old and [my abuser] was probably in his 30s, maybe 40s, at the time," he tells Sun Online. "It's doubtful that he's alive and, anyway, I think that ship has long sailed."
James, now living in Texas, recalls how he had just won a compass challenge on a scout 'camp out' as an eager 12-year-old when he was abused for the first time as he slept.
"Somewhere in the night I started feeling someone breathing on my neck and somebody fondling my genitals. A lot of it I can't remember, I've blocked it out," he says.
"I just froze, like a deer in the headlights."
James - who is among many alleged victims suing the BSA - believes his abuse played a huge part in his subsequent four divorces and "high-risk" and "crazy" behaviour.
"In recent years I have really realised just how this affected me," he says.
"Am I angry, am I hurt, do I feel like they totally betrayed us? Yes I do."
He adds that two of the key points in the Scout Law are to be trustworthy and loyal - yet the BSA has "failed to live up" to its oath by treating decades of abuse as a "dirty little secret".
Today, James is proud dad to a 28-year-old son, who never joined the scouts. But if he had, James says: "I know I would have been there the whole time because of what went on."
By filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy - a move welcomed by some alleged victims, yet slammed by others - the BSA can put the lawsuits against it on hold for now and continue operating.
But ultimately, it could be forced to sell some of its vast property holdings, including campgrounds and hiking trails, to raise cash for a victims' fund.
Many hope the move will encourage more abuse victims to step forward.
A spokeswoman for Abused In Scouting – a group of more than 1,800 alleged abuse survivors fighting for justice – tells Sun Online: “It is important for those abused in Scouting – no matter what their age or the state where they live – to come forward now.
“The bankruptcy court will set a window filing of claims, and this window could be the last chance for abuse victims to seek justice.”
Mary also stresses the importance of speaking out about abuse: “It’s really important to get your story out – with a trusted person who loves you. It will kill you if you carry it forever.”
She adds: “I still have a difficult reaction when I see a Boy Scout uniform. There’s something about it that gives me a stomach ache. It was so much a part of those boys’ lives.”
AARON Averhart was just 12 when he says he was first abused by Scout camp staff leader William Sheehan, who sneaked into his tent in south-west Florida and 'dry-humped' him.
It was the start of a frightening, years-long ordeal for the Boy Scout, that would see him allegedly molested, raped and even starved of oxygen during successive summer camps.
"He stalked me in every living quarter I was moved to over the years, adding choking and oxygen deprivation to the rape, molestation and psychological abuse," claims Aaron.
"I felt an utter and complete sense of shame and guilt."
Sheehan - who died several years ago - has been accused of raping or molesting dozens of other men as children, though he was never charged with any crime.
Aaron, now 45 and living in Fort Myers, says it was the leader himself who had helped him get a job as summer staff in 1986, despite him being a "bit young" for the role.
"He began sneaking into my tent at night to dry-hump me," he recalls of the first alleged attack.
"He continued doing that for the remainder of the summer.
"I was invited back the next summer and returned, hoping the one previous would not be repeated.
"It was 1987, the year Sheehan began to rape me. I knew something was wrong the first summer, but never imagined it was going to get worse each year."
He adds: "I reported my abuse to the Boy Scout camp director in 1989. [Sheehan] was taken into custody by the local sheriff's office, then let go after a harrowing interview with me, and an extremely minimal investigation into his past."
Aaron, now a plumber and author, says he was upset to hear how many other men had reported being abused by BSA leaders and scouts, under the protection of a "supposed morally upright organisation".
"The 60-plus years of cover ups, lies and complete lack of transparency by the BSA is nearly as painful as the memories of abuse suffered under their watch," he blasts.
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A 13-year-old boy on Grindr was raped or sexually abused by at least 21 men, according to an investigation by The Sunday Times .
The national newspaper revealed that detectives have investigated over 30 cases of child rape in the UK since 2015 , where the underage victims were first contacted on dating apps like Tinder and Grindr.
The 13-year-old boy from Yorkshire was reportedly contacted by men on dating apps he had signed up to, including Grindr and Badoo.
The Sunday Times also found that there 60 further cases of child sex offences using online dating services, including violent sexual assault, kidnapping and grooming, according to police documents seen by the paper following Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.
In one incident, an eight-year-child from Lincolnshire sent photos of a “sexual nature” to a paedophile and had a “sexual conversation” with him after being groomed on an unnamed dating app, reports the newspaper.
The paper received FOI responses from 10 out of the UK’s 46 police forces.
A Grindr spokesperson told PinkNews that it is “saddened” by The Sunday Times’ investigation and that the dating app was taking steps to remove underage users.
“Grindr is committed to creating a safe and secure environment to help our community connect and thrive, and any account of sexual abuse or other illegal behaviour is troubling to us as well as a clear violation of our terms of service,” the spokesperson said.
“We encourage users to report improper or illegal behaviour either within the app or directly via email to legal@grindr.com.
“In addition, our team is constantly working to improve our digital and human screening tools to prevent and remove improper underage use of our app.”
Responding to The Sunday Times ‘ investigation, culture secretary Jeremy Wright said the findings were “truly shocking” and provided “yet more evidence that online tech firms must do more to protect children.”
He told the paper that the government would consider new legislation requiring porn to use age verification technology to stop those below 18 from using dating apps from April.
“I will be writing to these companies asking what measures they have in place to keep children safe from harm, including verifying their age,” Wright told The Sunday Times.
“If I’m not satisfied with their response, I reserve the right to take further action.”
Both Tinder and Grindr have a minimum age policy of 18.
However, some users have reported being able to sign up to Tinder and Grindr, despite being underage.
There have been previous reports of underage boys being abused on Grindr.
In October, it was reported that a man from Sydney, Australia, was bailed for the alleged rape of a 13-year-old boy he met on Grindr.
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