The issue is particularly annoying in the case that the resulting entities of the query become detached. Join fetch is used to avoid the LazyInitializationException in such cases. Due to this bug, join fetch in scrollable results becomes useless. In order to initialize the proxies linked with the main entity returned by the query we have to explicitly access the proxy before detaching the main entity.

I don't understand why the issue has so few votes.

By the way, I looked also into the problem and the fix suggested @Chris Cranford seems sufficient to resolve the problem.