Camp de Benneville Pines And Unitarian Universalist Child Sex Abuse Cover-Up Efforts - What's The Connection?

A Unitarian Universalist subreddit headlined:

Does anyone else recall sexual misconduct at DeBenneville Pines camps?

written by someone using the handle IsThisDecent goes on to say:

"This would have been around 2004. I remember counselors reading to us (ages 13--17 or so) from a sexual "how to" book. I remember boys being allowed in girls cabins. I remember making snowmen with elections (sic). Counselors talking about hooking up with other counselors. For the last day of camp pictures, all the girls posed in our bras. I had my first sexual experience there that I wasnt ready for. ​I can't be the only one who remembers this.

I was told the teen camp was eventually shut down due to sexual misconduct"

Someone using the handle movieTed somewhat naively responds:

"Any links to news articles from reliable sources regarding this? The Camp seems to be open."

As if such sexual misconduct occurring at a Unitarian Universalist camp would be reported to news media, let alone reported *by* news media. . .

 

IsThisDecent answers:

"No news articles, the current minister of my parents' congregations is the one who told me it had been shut down. I have the picture with the bras still. I don't think the news media was ever contacted, all I have is my and my parents recollection.

That is the main reason I posted here, I was curious if anyone else who grew up in the church had these experiences."

The answer to IsThisDecent's question asking if anyone else who grew up in the Unitarian Universalist church experienced sexual misconduct, or indeed quite serious sexual abuse, at a UU camp is of course "Yes".

The only question is how many victims of such sexual misconduct involving children or legal minors at UU camps there are. . .

Someone using the handle oldRoyalSleepy responds:

"This is not unheard of. A sexual interaction that a girl was not ready for occurred at a different UU summer camp in the 20-teens and was not taken seriously or investigated at all. And yes, similar sex talk and acting out was normalized and not appreciated by all."

 

Some years ago, but not *that* long ago, let's say 2023 or 2024, a woman claimed to have been raped at a Unitarian Universalist camp in a comment on a post on Rev. Daniel Harper's 'Yet Another Unitarian Universalist' blog. UNfortunately, Rev. Dan Harper deleted that comment and all other comments on that particular blog post, thus "memory holing" not only that particular allegation of child rape at a UU camp, but all the comments that responded to that allegation in one way or another. As far as I am concerned, such "memory holing" of allegations of sexual misconduct aka sexual abuse constitutes knowing and willful participation in Unitarian Universalist concealment aka cover-up of UU sexual misconduct that includes, but is not limited to. . . child sex abuse.

What I find "interesting" about this conversation about sexual misconduct involving children at Unitarian Universalist camps is that we are talking about sexual misconduct aka sex abuse that allegedly took place in the 21st century. We are not talking about "historic" sexual misconduct that took place earlier in the latter half of the 20th century.

We are even talking about sexual misconduct involving children that occurred in the "20-teens".

i.e. in the years after the UUA threatened me with prosecution for blasphemous libel for blogging about "such despicable crimes as pedophilia and rape" committed by pedophile*rapist UUA clergy, to say nothing of pedophile*rapist UU lay leaders such as First Parish Norwell's Richard Buell and Steven Craig Bulleit who "taught a sexuality class to eighth- and ninth-graders at Atkinson Memorial Church in Oregon City, according to a 2003 church newsletter."

Years in the "20-teens" can be as recent as 2018 and 2019, less than a decade ago, and after the UUA Board of Trustees brazenly lied about child sex abuse committed by pedophile*rapist UUA clergy such as Rev. Mack Wallace Mitchell and Rev. William Alexander "Sandy" McEachern in its dishonest, and thus worthless, "official apology for clergy sexual misconduct" that UUA Moderator Jim Key aka Risk Management consultant James "See No Evil" Key inappropriately inserted into the middle of his first Moderator's Report to a UUA GA in 2014.

Is anyone surprised that alleged sexual misconduct involving a child, or indeed multiple children. . . that allegedly took place at a Unitarian Universalist camp "in the 20-teens", i.e. between 2013 and 2019, "was not taken seriously or investigated at all" by the UUA, or the implicated Unitarian Universalist camps and districts?