The Boy Scouts in America were recently ordered to pay $18,5 in damages to people who had been molested when they were young and had joined the Boy Scouts. The Boy Scouts apparently kept their own secret files, as to when abuse is alleged, and in the Oregon case, there were over 1 000 files for the period 1964 to 1985 detailing alleged abuse by troop leaders and volunteers. It is terribly sad that something which obviously began with the very best of intentions, had turned into an organisation that unfortunately attracts some of the most unsavoury types of paedophiles and even sadder still, for those absolutely normal people who were involved, who are always going to now be viewed by parents as potential paedophiles. The Catholic Church has not been doing very much better, with the New York Times running one article after another, detailing how the current Pope was aware of sexual abuse in certain cases by some of the priests under his charge, and did not have them criminally prosecuted. The Vatican has come out with one denial after another, but most of those don’t sound particularly impressive to an attorney – and are along the lines of, yes, he did sign the letter, but that does not mean he read the contents properly. The bottom line is that you cannot be too paranoid about who you leave your children with.