Chadlee Anvil Bryant <flakey741@aol.com> wrote:

In 2002, Rabbi Yechiel Brauner was convicted on the charges of Sexual
Abuse in the 1st Degree and 3rd Degrees. He was sentenced to 11 years probation, with the condition that he must participate in a sex offender treatment program.

In 2008, Joel Kolko, a rabbi at Yeshiva Torah Temimah, pleaded guilty
after being accused of sexually abusing two of his first-grade students.

In 2009, Yona Weinberg, a bar mitzvah tutor and licensed social worker
from Flatbush, was convicted of molesting two boys under the age of 14.
At his trial, where he was sentenced to 13 months in prison, the
courtroom was packed with Weinberg's supporters who maintained his
innocence. In response, presiding Justice Gordon L. Reichbach criticized
the "communal attitude that seeks to blame, indeed punish, victims";
these victims had been kicked out of their schools and summer camps after coming forward with the allegations against Weinberg.

In 2009, Rabbi Israel Weingarten was convicted in a Brooklyn court of
raping his daughter between the ages of nine and eighteen.

Some boys have reported being molested while in the mikvah, a ritual bath that is considered a symbol of purity in Judaism.

In 2011, a member of the community was charged by a local Special Victims Unit with witness tampering for sending threatening text messages to
members of the Orthodox community urging them to pressure the family of
an 11-year-old abuse victim to drop the case.

Pearl Engleman, a member of the Satmar sect aged 64 in 2012, said she
became an anti-abuse activist after her son was molested as a child by a rabbi at his yeshiva. Under New York law, his case could not be
prosecuted since the statute of limitations has already expired.

In 2012, Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi Moshe Keller was sentenced to three
years' probation for molesting a then-15-year-old boy in 2009.

In 2012, 53-year-old spiritual adviser Nechemya Weberman was accused of having molested a teenage girl, one of his students, over a period of
several years. The girl had initially been sent to Weberman because she
had been asking theological questions. Weberman, a member of the Satmar Hasidic community, was a widely respected figure in his community, with
many unwilling to believe the allegations against him. As a result, the alleged victim was harassed and labeled a "slut", while her family and boyfriend received threats. A campaign called "Libel 75", started by Weberman's supporters, allege that he is innocent. A 48-year-old man
named Abraham Rubin was charged with bribery, witness tampering, and
coercion in connection with the case; offering the alleged victim and her family money, while suggesting they flee to Israel to avoid testifying.
Three brothers, Jacob, Joseph, and Hertzka Berger, were also charged
after they threatened and then removed the kosher certificate of a
restaurant run by the family of the alleged victim's boyfriend. In 2012, Weberman was convicted on all 59 charges, and received 103 years. In
2013, the three brothers admitted to the coercion charges, but received
no jail time. Rubin also pleaded guilty a couple of months later, and received four months. Following Weberman's conviction, the victim and her husband continued to face abuse and repercussions. The victim was shamed
and driven from the synagogue on the high holy days and several weeks
prior to that, someone had thrown eggs at her husbands store.

In 2012, a woman from Kiryas Joel came forward with allegations that her 14-year-old son had been masturbated by a Hasidic man who worked at his Vizhnitz school. A rabbi allegedly tried to intimidate the mother into dropping the case. The boy was subsequently expelled from the school, and staff at the school also threatened to charge the mother with child abuse.

Mordechai Jungreis, a 38-year-old father, claimed in 2012 that his
mentally disabled teenage son had been molested in a mikveh by an older
man. Jungreis said he first suspected the abuse after his son came home with

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