I emailed the YMCA and received this response:

 

The termination of an East Cobb YMCA member last weekend is a child protection and security concern, not a faith issue. The Cobb County YMCA has pledged to protect the children entrusted to our care by their parents. Under no circumstances can we allow an adult member to offer children money and/or private contact information and seek to set up meetings outside the Y without the knowledge and prior approval of the child's parents. For an adult to offer a child money to accept and respond to such an overture is a totally unacceptable act that violates our unwritten contract with parents and children and poses an immediate safety concern.

Our Y has been a safe place for children for 50 years and we are determined that it will remain so.

Tom McCleskey, Executive Director
YMCA of Cobb County