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Michigan Charges Ex-Boy Scouts Leader Charged for Sexual Assault

HeadlineMar 10, 2022

In Michigan, a former Boy Scouts leader has been charged with sexually assaulting two boys in a Detroit suburb. Fifty-one-year-old Mark Chapman is the first former Boy Scout leader to be charged under a review of thousands of sexual abuse claims in Michigan. Survivors say sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts has long been an “unspoken norm.”

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