Boblitt, Allen L.
Ineligible Volunteer File on Allen L. Boblitt
Added April 19, 1982
In around 1920, soon after the Boy Scouts of America (“BSA”) was formed, the organization began keeping files on adult leaders and volunteers who were alleged to have committed various crimes and offenses. The files are known today as the “Ineligible Volunteer” or the “I.V. Files.”
The I.V. Files are made up of six categories of offenses including Perversion, Morals, Financial, Leadership, Theft and Criminal. By far the largest category is the Perversion Files, or “P Files” as the BSA internally refers to them. The Perversion Files contain the names of adult leaders who have been accused of, or convicted in a criminal court of, molesting or otherwise sexually abusing Boy Scouts.
Disclaimer: The information contained in each of the I.V. files was created solely by the Boy Scouts of America. The I.V. files for the period 1965 through 1985 were made public pursuant to a court order. By the terms of the court’s order, the names and contact information of persons identified as victims of sexual abuse and those that reported the abuse were redacted. If the person identified as the reporter of alleged abuse was a professional Scouter, i.e., an individual employed by the Boy Scouts of America or an affiliate, then the person’s name was not redacted. In 2012, the I.V. Files for the period 1986 through 1991 were made available to the public through the Los Angeles Times.
The information in the Perversion Files concerns allegations of child sexual abuse. In a number of the cases, the allegations were later substantiated by court proceedings. However, in a great many cases no such substantiation ever occurred.
The first page of each I.V. File is a “Confidential Record Sheet,” which provides basic background information on each individual. The information includes the individual’s date of birth, daytime job, and most importantly, his troop number and the basics of the allegations of abuse.
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Allen L. Boblitt
In 1962, Allen Boblitt was removed from his leadership position with the Boy Scouts Explorer after it was reported he sexually abused boys.
In 1972, Paul Ernst, BSA Supervisor of Registration and Membership called into question Allen Boblitt’s “eligibility for registration in a leadership capacity” when Boblitt registered as a Scoutmaster of Troop 544 in Philadelphia. Despite these concerns, Boblitt was permitted to register with BSA on a two-year “probationary period.”
Ten years later, on March 5, 1982, Boblitt was charged with sexually molesting two 11-year old boys in another troop, Troop 136 based in Warminster, where he was the Assistant Scoutmaster. Boblitt invited the boys into his home under the pretense of making merit badges, then he sexually assaulted them. Upon Boblitt’s subsequent arrest, he was, again, terminated from his leadership role in Scouting.
