Review: Boy Scouts sex abuse documentary is a portrait of shocking complacency
It wasn’t until just a few years ago, Humphrey says, that he realized his hair loss at such a young age could be related to the three years he was abused by his scoutmaster. Of the approximately 200 instances of sexual assault he estimates he suffered, he didn’t say a word for half a century. And then he learned about the staggering scope of child abuse within the Boy Scouts of America .who have come forward as survivors — the largest sexual abuse settlement in U.S. history.
Within the first two decades of its existence, the organization began compiling a list of volunteers who weren’t to be readmitted, lest they continue to abuse. The “perversion files,” as the blacklist of more than 1,000 names came to be called internally, kept growing, but it was BSA policy to shield records from law enforcement and abusers’ workplaces, even if the latter were a school. The BSA had a reputation to protect, as well as assets of at least $1 billion.
“Leave No Trace” is fair and persuasive, acknowledging the new rules the Boy Scouts instituted in the 1980s in response to the hundred or so allegations of abuse then reported every year, while chronicling the seeming inability of the institution to reform itself.Among the most galling anecdotes is that of a former executive and 40-year veteran of the organization who, after running a task force to protect members from assault, was convicted of possessing child pornography.
Taylor occasionally films her subjects outside — against exquisite sunrises and sunsets, pink skies and lavender clouds reflected below by a placid pond. Such visions are much more compelling in suggesting the innocence lost than the sometimes belabored segments tying the Boy Scouts to Americana. But if the pacing occasionally slacks, “Leave No Trace” makes up for it in narrative twists and turns that shock without ever feeling exploitative.
One of the doc’s final surprises comes in the form of a survivor’s admission that he hopes the BSA will endure; his abuse didn’t permanently taint the organization for him. But it’s clear that, for many others, they were pushed into a place of no return.
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