Paul Bonacci was a victim of King’s abuse.He was also sent by King to lure Boys Town youngsters off campus.
Paul Bonacci:
We used to just drive around, go up throughout the home.Picking up the kids.You know, just a kind of winning their confidence, become friends with themfor a while.Started inviting them to the parties.The kids were 10 years old or older.In 1986 King’s plundering of Boys Town was reported by staff to its chief executive, father Val Peter.Subsequent testimony proves that he carried out his own investigation but thatKing’s victims refused to talk to him.Monsignor Hupp now blames himself for Boys Town’s association with LarryKing.
Monsignor Hupp
: Well, in retrospect, I regret having any association withLarry King.And had I known it at the time, it would have never happened.Could you understand why a very detailed report from a social worker employedat Boys Town, identifying children and identifying their alleged abusers never saw the light of day, nothing happened with that? No, I couldn’t understand that because if I’d known that I wouldn’t put up withthat.But has something like that happened?I don’t know of it.
Social worker Carol Stitt:
Nebraska has a very clear statute, that child abuseallegations should be reported to authorities.They shouldn’t be reported to the principal of the school, the director of thefacility.They should be reported directly to either child protective services or lawenforcement.And so Larry King remained free to feed his pedophilic parties with childvictims.But in 1988 a routine review brought King’s involvement with Boys Townyouth to the attention of Nebraska’s State Foster Care Review Board.The main information presented to the Foster Care Review Board, either via thetelephone reports, the personal reports or the reports we reviewed, Larry King’sname was consistently present as someone the youths were making allegationsagainst.
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