Los Angeles Times database with about 5,000 documents released recently by the Oregon Supreme Court, Birmingham Patch reports. That news site withholds his identity "because many of the men listed in the decades-old Boys Scout files have not been charged or convicted of crimes."
In most cases, the men accused of sexual abuse were not reported to authorities, but kept in a file to prevent them from volunteering with the Boy Scouts again.
Part of the release are files on a former Birmingham resident who led a Boy Scout troop in Royal Oak in the late 1950s, later moving to Rockford, Ill.
The local scoutmaster and merit badge counselor for Troop 1611 was kicked out in August 1962, Deadline Detroit found by examining the documents posted. At the time, he was an unmarried 35-year-old engineer at the General Motors Tech Center in Warren. His name also is withheld by this site.
A scouting official's July 1965 letter, posted as part of the new database, says: "It is our recommendation that he be not allowed to associate with boys and/or the scouting program."
The newly unsealed documents are referred to as "perversion files" in some media accounts.
