Larry Akers was 9 years old when his father God Bless The USA Shirt died so he relished the attention of a Boy Scout leader from the neighborhood troop in Hamilton. He felt special when the man invited him to sleep over. Touching didn’t start right away. When it did, Larry felt uncomfortable. But he was a kid in Northeast Baltimore without a dad at home, so he pushed it from his mind. It’s taken him decades to confront the memories. He says the scout leader and another man would take boys camping and touch them at night. “It made me a very angry person. I kept drinking and it held me back from setting goals in my life and being the man I wanted to be," said Akers, 60, of Middle River. “It basically destroyed me.” He’s among more than 200 Maryland men who filed claims against the Boy Scouts of America, saying they were sexually assaulted decades ago by scoutmasters and troop volunteers. These survivors tell of grown men sneaking into their tents at night and child predators who found opportunity during weekends away in the woods.
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