According to the Akron Beacon Journal, officials at the Scioto Youth Camp in Perry County, Ohio and Fairfield Christian Church in Lancaster, Ohio are pointing fingers at each other over a volunteer camp counselor accused of inappropriately touching three young boys at a church camp.
The camp officials say that they didn’t do a background check on Timothy Stephen Keil because “his church, Fairfield Christian Church, told them Keil had already passed a background check there to become a Sunday school volunteer.” The people at the camp didn’t think a second background check was needed.
Meanwhile church officials said they ran a background check, but couldn’t locate it in their files. When they asked the company that runs their background checks to review their records, it turned out that no one ran a background check on Keil.
Keil is now accused of molesting three young boys at the camp. He was previously convicted in Pennsylvania on the charge of corruption of a minor.
There’s a real simple lesson here. Do your own background checks. Nobody else’s background check is your background check. Only your background check is your background check.