A local Boy Scout trip is being sued over a case of child molestation that occurred more than 20 years ago. Andy Hinkle, 32, formerly of Santa Cruz but now of Oregon, claims that he was molested as a boy while attending the Pico Blanco Scout Camp in Palo Colorado Canyon in Big Sur in the early 1980s. The molestation started when he was five and lasted for seven years.
A local Boy Scout trip is being sued over a case of child molestation that occurred more than 20 years ago. Andy Hinkle, 32, formerly of Santa Cruz but now of Oregon, claims that he was molested as a boy while attending the Pico Blanco Scout Camp in Palo Colorado Canyon in Big Sur in the early 1980s. The molestation started when he was five and lasted for seven years.
Hinkle says that he was molested by Richard Christenson, a former den leader, who was convicted of sexual abuse in a separate instance and is now a registered sex offender. Though it happened more than 20 years ago, Hinkle says that he still suffers from emotional distress. Only now that he is confronting the perpetrator, he says, can he really begin his healing process. Read more at KSBW.
