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News Y.U. Report on Sex Abuse Draws Mixed Reaction From Modern Orthodox
The Modern Orthodox community has broadly welcomed a long-awaited report into allegations that Yeshiva University staff physically and sexually abused numerous students over several decades. But the report, which withheld most of the findings uncovered by investigators, was not enough to mollify some current and former Y.U. students and victims of abuse. “More will need…
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Fast Forward Former Aussie Maccabi Coach Jailed for Sexually Abusing Girls
A former coach of a Maccabi basketball team in Australia was sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually abusing four girls more than a decade ago. Shannon Francis, who is not Jewish, was sentenced Wednesday by County Court of Victoria Judge Meryl Sexton. Francis must serve at least 5 1/2 years before he is…
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Fast Forward Horace Mann Pays More Than $1 Million to Victims of Sexual Abuse Scandal
Horace Mann paid out over $1 million to victims in the wake of the elite private school’s sexual abuse scandal last year, according to court filings, The New York Times reports. The legal papers were filed at the New York Supreme Court as the pricey Riverdale private school sues its insurers to recover some of…
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Fast Forward Religious Zionist Moti Elon Convicted of Sex Abuse
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday convicted Rabbi Moti Elon, a highly regarded figure in the Religious Zionist community, on two counts of forcible sexual assault against a minor. Elon, the former head of Yeshivat Hakotel in Jerusalem, was charged last year with sexually assaulting two of his students in 2003 and 2005. The investigation…
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Opinion Nechemya Weberman and His Devoted Wife
When Nechemya Weberman was found guilty and was sentenced to 103 years in prison for repeatedly raping a girl who he was supposed to be counseling, most thought the grisly tale was over. This was a record sentence for a Hasidic man convicted in a Brooklyn courtroom. The counselor had fallen, and his cloistered Satmar…
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Fast Forward Chabad Yeshiva Teacher David Kramer Gets 3 Years for Australia Sex Abuse
David Kramer, a former teacher at the Yeshivah College day school in Melbourne, Australia, has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for sexually assaulting four students. Kramer, however, could leave prison after a little more than three months because he has been in prison while awaiting his sentence, according to Australian…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes Releases Names of 46 Orthodox Abusers
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes released the names of 46 child sex offenders from the New York borough’s Orthodox community. Hynes, who has been investigating sex crimes in the community for four years, released the names in a policy shift, according to the New York Post. Previously, Hynes had felt that releasing the names could…
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Fast Forward Principal Helped Confessed Yeshiva Molester David Kramer Flee Australia
An American-born teacher who pleaded guilty to child molestation at a Jewish school in Melbourne was assisted in fleeing to Israel by his employer. In a pre-sentencing hearing at the County Court of Victoria Wednesday, the prosecution argued that David Kramer should receive the maximum sentence of five years in prison when he is sentenced…
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