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Incompetence Or Corruption: Ultra-Orthodox Sex Abuse And The Brooklyn District Attorney

Chaim Levin | Posted 03.25.2013 | Religion

Read More: Corruption, Ultra-Orthodox Sex Abuse, Brooklyn District Attorney, Charles Hynes, Brooklyn, Judaism, Nechemya Weberman, Hasidic Communities, Baruch Lebovits, Clergy Sex Abuse, Religion News

It is time that the Brooklyn D.A. take a real stand against victim and advocate intimidation and witness tampering. It appears that the exact opposite is occurring.

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Orthodox Counselor Sentenced To 103 Years In Prison

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 03.24.2013 | New York

NEW YORK (AP) — An esteemed religious counselor in New York City's ultra-orthodox Jewish community was sentenced Tuesday to 103 years in prison for ...

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Exposing Child Predators Without Defaming the Innocent

Eliyahu Federman | Posted 03.13.2013 | Crime

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Sex Abuse, First Amendment, Defamation, Nechemya Weberman, Privacy, Clergy Sex Abuse, Crime News

There is a need to inform the public of suspected sex offenders and empower victims on the one hand but also a need to ensure that innocent people aren't wrongly exposed. How do you balance those two interests when un-arrested individuals are accused of sex crimes?

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Orthodox Rabbis Laud Conviction Of Hasidic Man On Sexual Abuse Charges

Religion News Service | Lauren Markoe | Posted 12.13.2012 | Religion

(RNS) The world's largest group of Orthodox rabbis is lauding the process that led to the conviction of a Hasidic Jewish man on Monday (Dec. 10) on se...

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Man Arrested For Allegedly Attacking Rabbi With Bleach

AP | Posted 02.11.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- A man has been arrested on charges he threw bleach into the face of a New York City rabbi who publicizes claims of child sexual abuse in t...

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Hasidic Sexual Abuse Is 'Less' Orthodox Not 'Ultra' Orthodox

Eliyahu Federman | Posted 02.10.2013 | Religion

Read More: Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Sexual Abuse, Nechemya Weberman, Orthodox Judaism, Child Sexual Abuse, Judaism, Clergy Sex Abuse, Ultra-Orthodox Sex Abuse, Haredi, Religion News

Covering up sexual abuse is antithetical to Jewish law. The more ultra pious and Jewishly observant you are the less likely you should be to engage in sexual abuse coverups.

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Orthodox Counselor Convicted Of Sexual Abuse

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 02.09.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — A respected religious counselor in New York's ultra-orthodox Jewish community was convicted Monday of repeatedly sexually abusing a y...

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4 Accused Of Photographing Accuser In Sex Trial

AP | Posted 01.30.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — Four men have been arrested on charges they photographed a 17-year-old girl testifying in a New York sexual abuse trial against a rel...

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Prosecutors: Hasidic Counselor Abused Teen

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 11.28.2012 | New York

NEW YORK -- The alleged abuse started when the victim was 12. The girl, a member of the Satmar Hasidic community, had been sent to the office of Neche...

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