Pittson says he also spoke to the bishop, but as far as he knows, nobody reported the Scoutmaster to the police. He says his parents went to the bishop at their local church in Northern California, the same church that sponsored the Boy Scout troop, and the Scoutmaster was quietly removed from his position.
“I just wanted to go home.”Ībout four years later, Pittson, around 16 and furious that the man remained a Scoutmaster, told his parents what had happened. “He called after me, calling me a baby and trying to make me feel guilty,” Pittson recalls. Pittson can’t remember if this happened one time, or if the Scoutmaster invited him over again a few weeks later, but he does remember pulling up his pants after a few minutes and walking out of the room.
They wouldn’t understand.’” The man told him a “dirty story,” pulled down his pants and masturbated him. They wouldn’t think you’re mature enough. “He said, ‘But don’t tell your parents what I’m doing. “This is the normal way to learn about sex,” Pittson recalls the Scoutmaster telling him. The man assured the boy he had seen other Boy Scouts naked. The Scoutmaster invited Pittson, who was 12, to his house and asked him to lie on the bed. Fifty-eight years ago, Edward Pittson says, the Scoutmaster who had taught him skills like how to use a compass and light a campfire said he was going to teach Pittson about sex.
