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'It was hush, hush. It made me sick.' Dozens accuse ex-Boy Scout leader of sex abuse. Are there more victims?
Date Shared: July 23rd, 2024
Date Released: November 5th, 2019
Source: news-press.com

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The Boy Scouts has listed thousands of men as ineligible to volunteer because of sex abuse allegations. William Sheehan of SW Florida's Camp Miles was one of them.

Note to readers: This story includes graphic details of alleged child sex abuse. If you or someone you know is experiencing abuse, contact the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-422-4453.

Keith Briggs will never forget the knock on his cabin door at Camp Miles, a Boy Scouts of America camp in the swamp and pine flatwoods of Punta Gorda.

The year was 1989. There stood one of his counselors with a young Aaron Averhart in tow.

"'Mr. Briggs, you've got a problem,'" the former camp director recalled his counselor's words. "'Sheehan's going into his tent every night and abusing him sexually."

For 100 years, the Boy Scouts of America has kept a list of men, today numbering in the thousands, who have been banned from scouting for real or alleged sexual misconduct.

William Sheehan was one in Southwest Florida.
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