The kids' camp kerfluffle

A Camp Fire volunteer named O'Berry was arrested after firing a gun in the vicinity of a busload of kids heading to camp.

He had been arrested three times since February on other charges, including arson, automobile burglary and home burglary.

The most distressing part of the incident is this:

Camp Fire officials said this week that O’Berry was a volunteer and the organization does not do background checks on volunteers. [Emphasis mine - Ed.]

“He was always under the supervision of an adult,” said Traci Collins, Towazi’s board president. Volunteers are required to work in pairs, and never be alone with a child, she added.

Pedophiles and abusers always work alone, huh? So having them "never be alone" is some kind of a safeguard?

I. Think. Not.

It would have been possible to learn something about this volunteer's background by searching The Daily News archives, but only if you misspelled O'Berry's name by leaving out the apostrophe and putting a space instead. I don't know if that was deliberate obfuscation or more of the same.

Considering that Camp Fire accepted O'Berry because he was vouched for by a relative, and nepotism is a primary consideration in Bogalusa, I'm leaning toward the former.