DA ARRESTS
85 EXTREME ORTHODOX JEWS ON CHARGES
Handsome
Jewish Social Worker Andrew Goodman
used his Jewish Broadway / Movie Star appearance to lure kids to his
apartment.
He filmed sex acts with youngsters on a Web cam
according to a 144-count indictment.
Andrew
Goodman, 27, who worked for Jewish social-service agencies,
is charged with sexually abusing two Orthodox boys for years in
Flatbush
— one from age 11 to 15, the other from age 13 to 16.
Parents of Molested Boys and Girls Fear Retribution from the
American Jewish Community if They Complain
New York Post, "Fight Against Intimidation Must Rage On," by Michael
Lesher, Dec. 11, 2011
URL:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/fight_against_intimidation_must_5NILTrpPtVjMJ42bUmD0DJ#ixzz1iDi0oAmd
Parents of abused Jewish children shun the police not because
they’re indifferent to their children’s needs. When they hesitate to
report a sex crime, it’s generally because they’re afraid of
retaliation from community leaders. The DA must address that fear —
and the very real problems of rabbinic and institutional
intimidation that lie behind it.
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Brooklyn D.A. Investigation Leads to 85 Sexual Predators
Arrested in Orthodox Jewish Community
NEW YORK MAGAZINE, Dec. 11, 2011, by Andre Tartar
URL:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/12/brooklyn-da-85-orthodox-sexual-abusers-arrested.html
Earlier this summer, the Hasidic community in Borough Park
was ripped asunder by one
of the most gruesome murders imaginable — a young Jewish boy
smothered and disemboweled. The murderer may have been a
troubled outcast, as Matthew Shaer describes in
last
week's New York, but he was still one of their own —
a chilling reality check. Now, the Brooklyn District Attorney's
office has revealed the results of a three-year investigation
into sexual abuse in the borough's Orthodox Jewish community
that is downright seismic: 85 sexual predators arrested and 117
victims identified, according to the Post.
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Hasidic "Therapist" Suspected of Molesting 100 Young Boy
Protected in Israel Since 1985
New York Post,
"Fight against intimidation must rage on," by Michael Lesher,
Dec. 11, 2011
URL:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/fight_against_intimidation_must_5NILTrpPtVjMJ42bUmD0DJ#ixzz1iDrJVeX9
In 1985, Avrohom Mondrowitz — a Hasidic “therapist” working in
Brooklyn — was indicted for abusing five young boys. Police
suspected he abused well over 100 more. Mondrowitz fled to
Israel, where he remains a free man to this day. Although nearly
all of his alleged victims were children from ultra-Orthodox
Brooklyn, not one of them joined his few non-Jewish alleged
victims in testifying before the grand jury that indicted him.
Efforts to extradite Mondrowitz to face his accusers in a
Brooklyn court have been unsuccessful.
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Prosecutor Wants an End to Jewish Community Tradition of Hiding
Molestation from Authorities
NYC Addresses Pedophile Concerns, UPI.com, Dec. 11, 2011
NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A New York prosecutor says he
wants Orthodox Jews to report pedophiles despite a tradition of
keeping some criminal matters within the close-knit community.
Agudath Israel of America, a prominent body of Torah sages,
mandates anyone with knowledge of sex abuse at the hand of a
fellow observant Jew to first report it to rabbis, who then
decide whether the case should go to secular authorities.
Brooklyn District Attorney
Charles Hynes' Project Kol Tzedek, Hebrew for "voice of
justice," is trying to alter the paradigm.
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Andrew Goodman, 27, is a Jew who looks like a movie star, but
many members of Brooklyn’s Jewish community believe he is a
monster.
New York Post, Dec. 11, 2011, Orthodox Sex Abuse Scandal, 117
Kid Victims and 85 Arrests in Jewish Enclave
URL:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/orthodox_sex_abuse_scandal_Vzaqd3TbKtikUv0h6b3clI#ixzz1iDplK5Ov
Andrew Goodman, 27, who worked for Jewish social-service
agencies, is charged with sexually abusing two Orthodox boys for
years in Flatbush — one from age 11 to 15, the other from age 13
to 16. Goodman filmed sex acts with the youngsters on a Web cam,
according to the 144-count indictment, which alleges numerous
violations since 2006. He has pleaded not guilty. The handsome
Goodman, who held parties in his home with liquor and child
porn, also “threatened the life” of a boy who reported him to
authorities, court papers and sources say. Andrew Goodman
(above), one of 85 sex-abuse suspects arrested over the last
three years by Project Kol Tzedek, has been accused of preying
on the boys of Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community and — even
after his arrest on sex-assault charges — was caught on video
ushering teens into his Flatbush home (below). He is being held
on Rikers Island in lieu of a $1 million cash bail. He’s one of
an astounding 85 accused Orthodox child molester...
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