https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-Charity-Fresh-Air-Fund-Sandusky-Children-Sex-Abuse-133959368.html

Sandusky May Have Hosted 6 Fresh Air Fund Kids: Charity

A New York City-based nonprofit serving disadvantaged youth says as many as six children may have stayed at the home of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky over the last three decades, NBC New York has learned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fresh_Air_Fund

What is the Fresh Air Fund

The Fresh Air Fund is a not-for-profit agency that provides free summer vacations in the country to New York City children from low-income communities. Each year, thousands of children visit volunteer host families in 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada through the Friendly Town Program or attend one of five Fresh Air Fund summer camps. The Fresh Air Fund has helped more than 1.8 million children since 1877

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/24/nyregion/fresh-air-fund-faces-questions-on-checking-for-safety.html

What the parents of the 5,000 boys and girls may not know is that most of the host families selected by the Fresh Air Fund have not undergone criminal background checks. None are required to be fingerprinted as child-care workers with city agencies are. And none of the summer parents will have received the informational documents that detail the children's personal histories -- including any history of therapy, foster care, or abuse that might be relevant to their behavior in the host home.

http://www.vachss.com/guest_dispatches/excerpt_battle_3.html

Private and not-for-profit, the Fund is one of New York's oldest and most revered charities. Its directors represent a Who's Who of New York society, and it has the backing of some of the city's—indeed, the country's—most powerful and prestigious companies and individuals, including Con Edison, David Rockefeller, and The New York Times Company (which contributes more than $75,000 a year). All told, donors contribute about $3 million annually, and the charity's net worth is more than $25 million, according to its 1986 tax forms

The focus of the criticism was three civil lawsuits filed between 1981 and 1984 charging that the Fund's negligence in its screening and supervision caused children to be abused. All three children named in the suits were black (over 80 percent of the children the Fund serves are black or Hispanic), and two cases involved white host families.

Critics have called the Fund a natural target for pedophiles—adults whose sexual orientation is focused exclusively on children—and predicted that further abuse was inevitable until the charity made substantive changes in its program. Their charges seemed to be supported by interviews with convicted pedophiles.

Critics of the Fund have said that because many children do not disclose abuse, the number victimized on Fund vacations will never be known. Furthermore, they say, even when abuse is disclosed, it may not be publicized. This investigation revealed several such examples

More info in article... tells of the abuse

https://newtownbee.com/fresh-air-fund-seeks-families-to-host-disadvantaged-children/

Fresh Air Fund Seeks Families To Host Disadvantaged Children

Published: May 14, 2001

Families in Newtown are being sought to open their homes and their hearts to a child who might not otherwise have a summer vacation. The Fresh Air Fund is looking for residents to host children from New York City who have never known the joy of a summer in the country, the fun of playing outdoors in a yard, or swimming in the town pool

This is old news, but this type of stuff is still going on

seems some charities that are suppose to help underprivileged children, instead are being abused

we have seen many charities that do this