The Boy Scouts’ newly released “perversion files” contain the names and information on at least three adult Scout leaders in Central Louisiana who were suspected of being sexually abusive to boys.
The files include information on a State Police trooper who was a scoutmaster in Vidalia, and two airmen at England Air Force Base who were volunteer adult leaders with Boy Scout troops in Alexandria.
The 14,500 pages of Scout files, from 1959-1985, were posted Thursday on the website of Kelly Clark, the Portland, Ore., attorney who used the files as evidence in a 2010 lawsuit he won against the Boy Scouts of America.
The files have been maintained by the Boy Scouts since soon after their founding in 1910. They consist of memos from local and national Scout executives, handwritten letters from victims and their parents and newspaper clippings about legal cases.
The Cenla cases involved:
- Stephen Joseph Cortez, a state trooper who was scoutmaster of Troop 331 in Vidalia. He was accused of improper conduct with a Scout in 1972;
- Alberto Ledezma, an airman at England Air Force Base who was scoutmaster of Troop 9 and an assistant scoutmaster of Troop 4 in Alexandria. He was accused by authorities of molesting a 7-year-old boy in 1979.
- John Irvin Baynard Blevins, an airman at England Air Force Base who was scoutmaster of Troop 9 in Alexandria. He admitted to trysts with other men and molesting one Boy Scout in 1960.
All three of the men were removed from their volunteer positions by the Boy Scouts when the allegations surfaced.
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