Talk:Sexual abuse cases in Brooklyn's Haredi community/Individual cases
Notable cases
[edit]Moshe Keller
[edit]In 2012, Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi Moshe Keller was sentenced to three years' probation for inappropriately touching a 15-year-old boy in 2009.[1]
Emanuel Yegutkin
[edit]On December 3, 2012, Emanuel Yegutkin, the former principal of Elite High School, a yeshiva high school for Russian-American Jews, was found guilty of sexually abusing three underage brothers over the course of more than a decade.[2] The victims were not enrolled in Yegutkin's yeshiva.[2] Yegutkin was charged with a variety of sexual crimes, and was found guilty of all 75 counts.[2]
On February 7, 2013 Yegutkin was sentenced to 55 years in prison for his crimes.[3]
Nechemya Weberman
[edit]- Also see Child sexual abuse in New York City religious institutions#Nechemya Weberman, Satmar Hasidic leader
On December 10, 2012, Nechemya Weberman, unlicensed therapist, [4] a youth counselor and prominent member of the Satmar community, was convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a girl he was supposed to be counseling, in all 59 felony and misdemeanor counts.[5] The abuse began when the victim was 12 years old, and continued over a period of several years.[6] During the therapy sessions that were arranged to help the girl become more religious, he engaged in various sexual acts with the girl and acted out pornographic scenes.[4]
During the trial, Satmar Rebbe Aaron Teitelbaum described Weberman’s accuser as a “zona,” or “whore”.[7] Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes criticized Teitelbaum, expressing his disappointment with Teitelbaum's remarks and calling them slanderous.[8]
Weberman was sentenced to 103 years in prison on January 22, 2013.[4] His term was subsequently reduced to the statutory maximum, which is 50 years.[9] With good behavior, Weberman could be out of prison in 43 years, in 2055.[9]
Update
[edit]The above material on three individual cases was excised from Sexual abuse cases in Brooklyn's Haredi community, as per this Talk section. As I've detailed in that section now, I've incorporated the above material which didn't overlap with existing material into another article, Child sexual abuse in New York City religious institutions, in the newly constituted Satmar Hasidic/Haredi community section. There was already a substantial section there for Nechemya Weberman, one of the three cases here. Hopefully the more case-oriented nature of that article will suit the material acceptably. Cheers. Swliv (talk) 03:18, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
timeswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/nyregion/ex-principal-in-brooklyn-convicted-of-abusing-boys.html
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/nyregion/ex-yeshiva-leader-sentenced-to-55-years-for-sexual-abuse.html
- ^ a b c "Hasidic Therapist Sentenced to 103 Years in Sexual Abuse Case". New York Times. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/nyregion/hasidic-man-found-guilty-of-sexual-abuse.html
- ^ http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/satmar-sect-considers-sending-rebel-teens-article-1.1216642
- ^ http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/n-y-ultra-orthodox-jewish-counselor-convicted-of-sex-abuse-in-he-said-she-said-trial-1.484111
- ^ Talkline with Zev Brenner, Dec. 4, 2012 podcast available at the bottom of this article, starting with the 7m 50s mark.
- ^ a b http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/child-sex-abuser-sentence-cut-article-1.1258548