We continue with 'Boys Town' from Nick Bryant's work ' The Franklin Scandal...A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse and Betrayal'

[....Initially, I had tremendous skepticism about the likelihood of Larry King’s plundering Boys Town for underage prostitutes, because of the orphanage’s fabled history as a sanctuary for troubled youth. But as I burrowed deeper and deeper into Franklin, I started to accumulate considerable corroboration that Boys Town students had been involved with Larry King. Eulice Washington’s was the first documented account that Larry King had pandered Boys Town students—Alisha Owen, Troy Boner, and Paul Bonacci also told Gary Caradori and Karen Ormiston that Larry King had exploited Boys Town students. Caradori’s father, Leno, had been employed as a teacher at Boys Town for years—Caradori revered Boys Town. So as he started stripping off the outer veneers of Franklin, like he was peeling an onion, repeated references to Boys Town broke his heart—perhaps even more than the NSP aiding and abetting the FBI.

Boys Town, founded in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan, is probably the world’s most famous “orphanage,” and it has certainly become an icon of the American experience. A 1938 movie, Boys Town, starring Spencer Tracy as Father Flanagan and Mickey Rooney as a lovable, rascally delinquent, branded the orphanage into the national consciousness. The film garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, and Tracy’s portrayal of Father Flanagan won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Over the years, three additional movies about Boys Town would follow.

Boys Town arose from humble origins near downtown Omaha to eventually become an incorporated “village” ten miles west of the city. The village of Boys Town, Nebraska has its very own zip code, post office, and police force. Boys Town, according to their June 2009 website, “provides direct care to more than 400,000 children and families each year through its youth care and health care programs at sites in a dozen states and the District of Columbia.” .....]
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