Moose CEO Retires After Sex Abuse Lawsuit; Hart Is New Director of Moose International
William Airey retires eight days after a civil lawsuit is filed that claims he abused a 12-year-old boy more than 30 years ago. Scott D. Hart, executive director of Mooseheart Child City and School, takes over immediately.
In the wake of a lawsuit claiming Moose International CEO William Airey sexually abused a 12-year-old boy more than 30 years ago, Moose International announced today (Friday, Dec. 21) that Airey will retire immediately. Airey's replacement is Scott D. Hart, executive director of Mooseheart Child City and School. Airey, 71, will stay on with the organization as a consultant of the 1.2 million-member organization through Jan. 31, to help in the transition, according to a press release issued by Moose International shortly before 3 p.m. Friday. The civil lawsuit against Airey filed Dec. 13 in Fort Hill, SC, by North Carolina physician Jason Peck claims that Airey "began grooming him to abuse him sexually in 1980, when he was 12," according an…
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Maria
7:56 am on Thursday, March 14, 2013
This just makes me more glad that I ran away from that place when I did. I was only there 3 years and in the first year alone, one house parent was arrested for molesting several boys under the age of 6 and not much after a boy in my grade was raped by an older boy he lived with. Not to mention being HEAVILY medicated the first 2 years which made my life a living hell and watching constant … more ›