Berwyn in the news today-- not good

[chandasz]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-police-berwyn-man-arrested-after-hundreds-of-child-porn-images-found-20141121-story.html

if you google this creep's name- turns out he's on the board of Sokol Tabor !?!?! Unless he's got the same exact name

[markberwyn]

Same person, on the evidence of his Facebook page. Looks like Sokol Tabor wiped his name from the list of board of directors. Compare the current version:

http://www.sokoltabor.org/aboutus/

With the cached one:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zRHWQnHw-gYJ:www.sokoltabor.org/aboutus/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Has Sokol Tabor otherwise spoken out about this? Seems like it ought to, in the name of the old-fashioned Berwyn values it represents.

[markberwyn]

It beggars understanding that Sokol Tabor---which claims a large part of its mission as being a safe haven for children---has made no public statement about a member of its board of directors being charged with possessing child pornography. Worse, it seems its only action thus far has been to disappear the accused man's name from its website.

[chandasz]

They took out the pic too. There's a woman with the same last name. Sister? Wife?

I would hope that they would acknowledge this and say at least that they are looking into it to make sure none of the children in their care were affected....

[markberwyn]

Yup. As it stands, it looks like they're trying to cover something up. Best to be candid and say that they know about this and that they're open to answering questions from families about it.

[mom]

Do you KNOW what is being done or are you just guessing?

[markberwyn]

Well, have you seen Sokol Tabor make a statement?