memorize this guy's face:and then if you see him on the street, punch him in it.
Boy Scout director charged with having child porn
Organization 'dismayed and shocked ' by news
DALLAS, Texas - The national director of programs for the Boy Scouts of America has been charged with possession and distribution of child pornography, the U.S. Attorneys said Tuesday.
In charges filed by federal prosecutors on March 21, Douglas S. Smith Jr. was accused of receiving images over the Internet in February of children engaging in oral sex, intercourse and other sexually explicit conduct.Sources in the U.S. Attorney's office told NBC that Smith, 61, was expected to plead guilty.
Law enforcement officials indicated the pictures did not show boys who were with the Boy Scouts organization, said Gregg Shields, national spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America, which is based in the Dallas suburb of Irving. He said Smith "was not in a leadership position which involved working directly with youth."
"We are dismayed and shocked to learn of this," Shields said in a statement. “Smith was employed by the Boy Scouts for 39 years and we had no indication of prior criminal activity.”
ugh. i sure hate people.
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i recently found out that my seventh-grade english teacher was arrested and later arraigned on 20 counts of child molestation a few months ago. i'm more than a little creeped out by that.
3/30/2005 4:28 PM
3/29/2005
Boy Scout leader charged with child porn was defender of anti-gay policy, ‘Youth Protector’
Scout leader charged with child porn ‘once Youth Protection chairman’
By Michael Rogers | RAWSTORYQ Editor
Boy Scouts of America’s National Director of Programs Douglas Smith will appear in a Dallas courtroom tomorrow to face charges of posessing child pornography, according to reports by NBC News.
At one point, Smith served as Chairman of the Scout’s Youth Protection Task Force, according to a website operated by the Western Alaska Council of the Boy Scouts of America, RAWSTORYQ has discovered.
In addition, Smith was one of 42 recipients of a Distinguished Service Award, presented to “Arrowmen who have rendered distinguished and outstanding service to the Order on a sectional, area, regional, or national basis. It is given primarily for dedicated service to the Order and Scouting over a period of years.”
The Boy Scouts have fueled controversy by keeping gays from its membership and leadership ranks.
In a bio published along with his award description, Smith was described as a resident of Texas who had achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, scouting’s highest honor. Smith was also recognized for “his visionary support [which] has allowed our Order to move to new level.”
Smith defended policy of discrimination against gays
In 2004, C-Span general counsel and Eagle Scout Bruce D. Collins wrote about the Boy Scouts, explaining what he felt were a number of contradictions in BSA policies. Mr. Collins’, whose column appears regularly in Legal Times, was unaware that his column, a copywritten work, was taken an reposted on the legal affairs website of the Boy Scouts.
“As contentious and even as violent as the 1960s were, I had always seen my Boy Scout life as a refuge from the political and culture wars,"Collins wrote. “My well-thumbed Boy Scout Handbook (which I still have) was chock full of good stuff about both camping and life skills. It counseled morality, clean living and obedience. Its themes were tolerance and inclusiveness.”
The Boy Scout’s reply, drafted by the same official appearing in court on the child pornography charges, said, “Some intolerant elements in our society want to force scouting to abandon its values and to become fundamentally different. They want scouting to forego its constitutional rights, affirmed in 2000 by the Supreme Court in BSA v. Dale, and adopt fundamentally different values from
the ones that helped shape the character of Mr. Collins and 106 million other young men over the past 94 years.”
A call to Mr. Smith’s Dallas area home to inquire about exactly what he meant, or whether the charges were true, went unanswered.
The accused child porn distributor concludes the letter by offering a scathing attack of the American Civil Liberties Union, “Mr. Collins would do well to communicate his displeasure to those directing their discriminatory assault against his beloved Boy Scouts – the ACLU.”
Smith is due in court tomorrow morning.
3/30/2005 9:24 PM
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