Second Accuser Claims Sexual Assault By New Jersey Rabbi
New Jersey Rabbi Menachem Chinn was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy in 2012. Image by Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office
Additional charges were filed against Rabbi Menachem Chinn on May 2 in Mercer County after the second accuser, now an adult, told authorities that Chinn had inappropriate sexual contact with him between July 2010 and May 2011, the New Jersey Jewish News reported.
The charges come with an additional count of endangering the welfare of a child and another of sexual assault, according to the the Mercer County prosecutor and East Windsor police chief.
The accuser was a student of Chinn’s at Shalom Torah Academy in Morganville, New Jersey, and a member of the Twin Rivers chapter of the National Council of Synagogue Youth, when Chinn was the director.
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