Scout leader faces child porn charges

[paineinthearse]

This strikes close to home. Ayer is 2 towns away and is in the same Boy Scout council. Note this man has been a leader, but his background check is 20 years old: "Under Massachusetts law and Boy Scouts of America regulations, Hurley's criminal record was checked twice before he became a volunteer, Bieler said. He was found to have no record."

Since the BTK Cub Scout/church leader's arrest last week, I have been working with my state rep to change the law to require all volunteers having contact with children pass ANNUAL criminal and sex crime background checks.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/06/scout_leader_faces_child_porn_charges/

Scout leader faces child porn charges
Allegedly e-mailed photos to officer posing as collector
By Suzanne Smalley, Globe Staff | March 6, 2005

A longtime Boy Scout leader from Ayer has been charged with sending hundreds of pictures of naked boys, some engaged in sex acts, to a police officer posing as a child porn collector, authorities said. Terrence Hurley, 55, was charged Friday in Ayer District Court with charges including possession of child pornography and distributing material depicting a child in a sexual act, Ayer Police Sergeant Todd Crumpton said yesterday. He pleaded not guilty.

Hurley is accused of e-mailing 724 images of naked boys to Keene, N.H., detective James McLoughlin, who works in a special Internet porn unit. A spokesman for Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley said she would have no comment yesterday because she did not know the facts of the case.

Hurley, a married father of two teenage sons and an assistant scoutmaster for at least 20 years, was released on $500 bail. He was ordered to stay away from children younger than 16, to sever his ties with the Boy Scouts, to stop using the Internet, and to remain employed as conditions of his bail, said Peter Johnston, who worked with Hurley as a scoutmaster for Troop 3 of the Nashua Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

Hurley is not thought to have molested any Boy Scouts, said Gerald Bieler, a Scout executive in Nashua Valley, where Hurley volunteered. Hurley told authorities that he had never had physical contact with boys but was curious about it. On Wednesday, Crumpton said, authorities seized from Hurley's home several computers, floppy disks, and a compact disc containing images. The computer ''will be forensically searched and processed," Crumpton said. ''Once they look at the computers and see what's inside of them, there could be more charges."

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Material from the Associated Press was used in this report. Suzanne Smalley can be reached at [email protected].

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1. "Hurley is not thought to have molested any Boy Scouts..."

No, but he definitely gets off looking at pics of naked boys.

And this was a married father of two teenage sons!

But, ya gotta keep them perverted homos out of the Scouts...</bitter sarcasm>:grr: