FirstReport

Three decades ago, a then 12 year-old Lonoke boy was invited to Jack Walls house. They had been in Boy Scouts together since he was 7 while Walls was finishing his Eagle Scout merits. This was the first time the boy would be alone

with Walls who was 22 at the time.

"Everyone left but me" the boy said, "he took me upstairs, he said he needed to show me something. He pulled out some Playboy magazines and showed them to me".

Walls then solicited sex from the boy, who turned him down. The boy was upset and told his father. The boy's father told Walls' employer about the incident and Walls was fired immediately. Walls' father, a prominent attorney in Lonoke at the time, was contacted and arrangements were made for Walls to join the military and do a stint in the Vietnam War.

This is the first documented incident of Jack Walls, now 58, soliciting sex from a child. This boy was the first of what authorities estimate to be as many as 150 boys Walls would solicit or sexually abuse until he was stopped 30 years later. There is no evidence available that any of the other boys from the early years came forward to speak out against Walls. Men now in their 30's and 40's were the first generation of Walls' victims. For some it ended quickly, for others the abuse continued for many years. And for others, yet unborn, the future was all but certain.