LOS ANGELES — The thousands of men expelled from the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America on suspicion of molesting children came from all walks of life — teachers and plumbers, doctors and bus drivers, ...

As the Scouts long have said, the files suggest no single profile of a predator. But a close look at nearly 1,900 confidential files opened between 1970 and 1991 revealed a pattern: Many suspected ...

While some Boy Scouts are groomed to be upstanding citizens, others are subjected to a different kind of “grooming.” It’s a term psychologists use to describe a pattern of molestation by the thousands ...

In some cases in Washington state Scout leaders quietly removed accused abusers from their positions and put them on the ineligible volunteer list, without alerting law enforcement. The sample of ...