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A teacher at one of Australia’s most prominent Jewish day schools has been charged with four counts of child exploitation, the Australian Jewish News reported Wednesday. Dean Kaplan, who has worked at the Emanuel School as a fitness instructor since 2016, was charged with two counts possessing child pornographic material and one count each of…
(JTA) — A camp counselor at a Jewish community center in Tarrytown, New York has been accused of possessing and distributing child pornography. Benjamin Bojemski, 20, was arrested and charged with possession and distribution of child pornography in Greenburgh town court, the Shames JCC on the Hudson in Westchester County said in a statement Friday. Shames…
Former congressman Anthony Weiner could face federal child pornography charges, according to a report Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal. One charge currently on the table, production of child pornography, carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years. The onetime mayoral candidate, now known for sending explicit images of himself to women he met online,…
A former Jewish day school teacher, administrator and private tutor in Toronto has been charged with possessing child pornography. Stephen Joseph Schacter, 55, was allegedly seen viewing child porn on a public computer at a social services center and was arrested Wednesday, The Star reported. According to police, Schacter worked as an elementary teacher for…
The ex-director of the foundation started by former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle pleaded guilty on Thursday to child sexual exploitation and child pornography charges and was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison, according to a court official. Russell Taylor, 44, who was executive director of the Jared Foundation, agreed in September to plead guilty…
A Jewish Boy Scout leader from Long Island, a Brooklyn rabbi and a police officer were among some 71 people arrested in the New York City-area, in one of the largest roundups of those who share child pornography online, a federal official said Wednesday. Jonathan Silber, a Boy Scout den leader and Little League baseball…
A yeshiva teacher and summer camp counselor has pleaded guilty to child exploitation and pornography charges. Evan Zauder, 27, a former sixth grade teacher at a New Jersey school, pled guilty on January 22 to charges that he used the internet to entice a boy to engage in sexual activity and to possessing and distributing…
A New York-area Jewish school teacher and summer camp counselor has been arrested on charges of possessing child pornography. FBI agents on May 1 raided the Manhattan apartment of Evan Zauder, where they discovered on his computer hundreds of images and videos of boys, some as young as 7, engaged in sex acts. Zauder, 26,…
