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Oct 31, 2011 · As a 21-year-old Scout leader, Turley would go on to tell a Nova Scotia mother he was taking her 11-year-old boy, then living in La Puente in Los Angeles County, for a day of fun in San...
Oct 28, 2011 · Despite a 1975 felony child-stealing conviction and a stint in a state hospital as a mentally disordered sex offender, Richard “Rick” Turley spent the next decade involved in Scouting,...
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In 1975, Turley did what he describes as the "craziest, stupid, bizarre thing" he would ever do. California newspaper headlines from 1975 dubbed it a "wild abduction tale." In a stolen single-engine Cessna, Turley kidnapped Ed Iris, an 11-year-old Nova Scotia boy living in La Puente, Calif., whom Turley had met while visiting a local scout troop. A...
In November 1976, 18 months after Turley’s arrival at the Patton State Hospital, he was deemed well enough to be released. The judge ordered him to return to Canada and report for probation if he re-entered the U.S. Within a year, Turley returned to Southern California to work at a Boy Scout camp near San Diego, an hour's drive from the hospital. H...
Though The Fifth Estate found documentsshowing that Scouts Canada and its American counterpart have traded information about pedophiles banned from their organizations, it appears the two did not share information about Turley. By August of 1979, Turley had returned to the Victoria area, and within a few years, he’d begun leading a local scouts tro...
In 1988, Turley sexually assaulted a child at a swimming pool. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and banned from associating with youth groups such as Scouts, YMCA and the Little League. It was not until 1995 that police began their first large-scale investigation into Turley – 16 years after the Boy Scouts of America created a "perversion file" ...
Much in Scouts has changed since the 1970s and 1980s when Turley used the movement to find his victims. The organization’s policies dictates that individuals accused of any sexual abuse are immediately suspended and then investigated, with information passed along to police and child protection authorities. Scouts Canada also has a stringent "two-d...
Jun 14, 2012 · At least two Canadian Scout leaders reported concerns to local headquarters about Turley's behavior around children, including that boys were sleeping in his tent on camping trips, court...
Oct 28, 2011 · In 1979, the Boy Scout's of America created a confidential "perversion file" on Richard J. Turley, who was caught molesting three boys at a Southern California scout camp.
Oct 18, 2012 · Richard Turley went back to Canada and continued to abuse boys until he was eventually convicted, in the mid-1990s. CONAN: And there are, sadly, too many of these stories. But put it in...
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Turley, Richard J. • Lawyers for Victims of Boy Scout Sexual Abuse. Ineligible Volunteer File on Richard J. Turley. Added September 27, 1979. In around 1920, soon after the Boy Scouts of America (“BSA”) was formed, the organization began keeping files on adult leaders and volunteers who were alleged to have committed various crimes and offenses.
