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Ex-Scout Leaders Charged With Rape

Compiled From Wire Services

Two former Boy Scout leaders have been charged with raping two scouts at a camp, and police said Thursday they believe more boys were victimized.

At a news conference, police said they heard stories this week of underage drinking, pornographic movies and sexual assaults dating back to 1981 at the Champlin Scout Reservation.

Paul Tondreau, 48, a carpenter at a hospital, was arrested Monday. Kenneth Gaspar, 37, a computer maintenance man for a cable television company, was arrested April 12, but was barred from the Boy Scouts last year when he was convicted of molesting a 12-year-old boy and given a 30-year suspended sentence.

Both are being held without bail.