James Chester’s Blog > Crime and Suffering

This was my first letter to the Boys and Girls Club of Boston. I sent it just a few months after first discovering what had happened to me in 1963. All I asked was for them to help me with my recovery, despite the decades ...
Frances K. Moseley, President and CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Boston in 1993, responded to my letter asking for their help with a resounding "No" ...
Following the Club's refusal to help, and their challenge that I prove what happened, I set out to prove the crime. With just a little information, I then contacted the Boys Club and offered to undertake a cooperative investigation with them, which they also refused. January ...
Following my previous letter, which apparently convinced the Boys Club that I intended to see this matter through to a meaningful end, the Club requested a meeting with me in the following letter. Dear Mr. Chester:  I am writing to respond to your letter of ...
From the beginning, the Boys Club was uncooperative and very ambiguous. They refused to investigate the atrocity I had alleged, and they refused to state whether they would help if I proved to them that I was telling the truth. At this point, we had ...
This letter, from Judith Malone, pictured above,  from Palmer & Dodge, counsel for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, was sent in response to my letter to the Club asking that they clarify their intent. If I proved what had happened in 1963, would ...
Carol A. Wool was Co-Director of Primary Care Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She treated me between 1976 and 1985. When the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston demanded proof from me, I wrote to Dr. Wool asking if she would corroborate the fact ...
While trying to identify the perpetrators, I searched the Charlestown Patriot newspaper, which was owned by the Charlestown Boys Club and used by them to showcase the members. The first person I identified bore a strong resemblance to one of the actual perpetrators but, in ...
Eventually, I began to see the futility of my exchanges with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston. And that was their objective. That was Francis Moseley's objective when she responded to my demand letter with a counter demand for proof. And that was Judith ...
In the letter that follows, Larry Hardoon forwarded a copy of the letter I sent him throwing in the towel because he thought Judith Malone should see it.March 4, 1998Dear Ms. Malone:My client has authorized, at my suggestion, the release to you of his December ...
Three months prior to this letter, in May of 1998, I personally turned over to the Boys Club a one hundred-plus page document containing: (1) the names of individuals who were at the day camp in 1963 as campers and counselors; (2) medical records proving ...
Following more than a year of repeated demands by the Boys Club for my documents as a condition for consideration of my appeal for help, I turned over the documents, despite the Boys Club's refusal to agree to the simplest terms. With the letter that ...
On June 11, 1999, the following letter went out to each of the members of the board of directors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston and the board of directors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, as listed below. Members of ...
On June 11, 1999, I wrote a letter to the Boys Club's Board of Directors and included Fr. Healy's affidavit with it. One month later, the Club's attorneys responded by contacting Mr. Hardoon with the following letter. However, I did not see the letter for ...
At this point. I have gone public. I wrote to the Boys and Girls Clubs board members, both at the regional (Boston) and national organizations, and, for me, it was like crossing the Rubicon. This drastic move finally compelled the Boys and Girls Clubs of ...
Following my email correspondence with the attorney for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston, Judith Malone of Palmer and Dodge, we agreed to a a meeting. When I didn't hear back from her in a while, I emailed her again inquiring, and she responded ...
Three months prior to this letter from the Boys Club, I sent out a letter to members of the Club's Board of Directors and included Fr. Healy's affidavit with it. The Boys Club responded one month later with a letter offering to settle. The letter ...
On September 2, 1999, after I contacted the Boston Globe, the Boys Club reversed an earlier decision to settle with me and decided instead to fight me. I accepted the challenge and vowed to prove the crime by bringing forward an eyewitness. In order to ...
After telling the Boys Club that I intended to go public in an effort to bring forward someone who knew about the crime, they responded with the following letter. In this letter, the Club denies demanding an eyewitness and states their need to verify my ...
On Sunday, January 23, 2000, I received the following letter from an individual who wishes to remain anonymous. One week later, I telephoned the Club's attorneys at Palmer & Dodge and read the letter to them. That same day, I faxed them a copy, as ...
On January 23, 2000, I received a letter via the Internet from an individual who claims to be another victim but who wishes to remain anonymous. In his letter, the individual corroborated everything that I alleged to the Boys Club when I first contacted them ...
After contacting the Boys Club and telling them that another victim had come forward, they responded with the following letter, raising their demand to production of the perpetrators. An eyewitness was no longer sufficient. Moving the goal post like this, as the Boys Club has ...
Following my disclosure of the other victim's letter to the Boys Club, they responded with the following letter, which I received first by email and later by US mail.February 18, 2000Re: Boys and Girls Clubs of BostonDear Mr. Chester: I met this morning with representatives of ...
Enable Notifications OK No thanks