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Boys Town, the renowned Omaha youth home, largely polices itself. Reports of child sex abuse are cloaked in secrecy, the Des Moines Register reports.
In 1988, state and federal authorities began looking into allegations that prominent citizens of Nebraska, as well as high-level U.S. politicians, were involved in a child prostitution ring. [3]
Boystown (stylized in logo as BOYS TOWN) was a child pornography website run through the Tor network as an onion service. It launched in June 2019 and was shut down by authorities in April 2021. Four German administrators of the site confessed and were sentenced to long prison sentences in December 2022. [3]
Boys Town, Nebraska. Boys Town was founded on December 12, 1917, [1] as an orphanage for boys. Originally known as "The City of Little Men", the organization was begun by Edward J. Flanagan, a Roman Catholic priest, while he worked in the Diocese of Omaha.
[9] [10] Stephen Anthony Gray, a former teacher at the school, was sentenced to six years' imprisonment in 2018 for sexually abusing four boys aged between 12 and 15 in the 1980s. [6] The child abuse uncovered at BoysTown was reported in 2020 as the largest case at a single institution in Australia's history.
With assets of $1.76 billion, storied Boys Town spent almost as much on fundraising last year as it did on its youth programming in Nebraska and Iowa
The village of Boys Town was established on December 12, 1917 as the headquarters of Father Flanagan's Boys' Home (), founded by Father Edward J. Flanagan. [6]The village houses the national headquarters of Boys Town, homes for the youth served and the families that care for them, a church, a museum (The Hall of History), a school, a post office, a fire station, visitor’s center, cafe and ...
In 2021, Boys Town lowered the two men's salaries, but made a separate $750,000 payment to Prodigy, where Ruden and Eglseder are cofounders and managing partners, according to the company's website.