People v. Feuling

This case concerns a Boy Scout initiation known as a “lollipop initiation” in which a blindfolded boy would be made to kiss the bare hand or arm of a scout. At the same time, another scout would remove his trousers and bare his buttocks, so that the one being initiated, upon removal of his blindfold, would be under the impression that he had actually kissed a bare buttocks. The two initiates involved were Joseph Frasier and Matthew Or amis.

Defendant Theodore Feuling, for several years a volunteer Boy Scout leader, was charged and convicted in a bench trial of two counts alleging violation of…