Scout’s Honor: What Happened To Thomas Hacker After 1988 Arrest

Netflix’s Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America highlights the harrowing revelations of over 100 years of child abuse coverups by the Boy Scouts of America, including the story of Scoutmaster and pedophile Thomas Hacker and his 1988 arrest. The stories in the documentary were told by whistleblowers, lawyers, and survivors. Among many segments detailing how deep the level of abuse and the deliberate negligence by the BSA were, the chilling story of Hacker, a scoutmaster in the suburban South, comes to mind.