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Unlicensed Hassidic "Counselor" gets maximum sentence for sex abuse
Topic Started: Jan 22 2013, 01:27 PM (167 Views)
Amanda
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Hooray! It's a stiff sentence, but it speaks well for justice for Ultra Orthodox guilty of sexual abuse - also for "therapists" (legitimate and not) abusing their position.

What a brave young woman! I hope this will embolden many more victims to come forward.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01...ears-in-prison.html?
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jon-nyc
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Hopefully it will. Though we probably haven't seen the end of this case.

The Rabbi that supported this girl had acid thrown in his face the day after the guilty verdict, after all. I havent heard whether he'll regain his sight.

It'll be interesting (understatement) to see if the entire community votes against the DA.
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Amanda
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I hadn't read about the Rabbi's maiming - and possibly worse.

Impossible to do the ultra Orthodox community more harm without trying. One could almost suppose it WAS an enemy doing it against them rather than protesting the verdict.

Personally, I see acid-throwing as THE worst, cruelest, most inhuman act possible to direct toward any creature. Makes me - for once - feel the only possible punishment is more of the same. :mad2:


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Amanda
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And against the head of the Bolshoi, too. What IS the matter with today's world? Sadism seems to be taking over - not "just" violence.

Can't help thinking there's an epidemiological element - that such ideas have a terrible contagion. Would like to see see studies done to check this - possibly altering coverage as a result (for instance, downplaying how they're presented - e.g., putting such items on more remote pages).


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jon-nyc
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Bleach, not acid, but they caught the guy.


http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/n-y-hasidic-counselor-sentenced-to-103-years-for-sexual-abuse-1.495663


More detail in there about the intimidation of the victim and her family.

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jon-nyc
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More details about Brooklyn's own Taliban:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/nyregion/shadowy-squads-enforce-modesty-in-hasidic-brooklyn.html?ref=nyregion&_r=0
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Amanda
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Jan 30 2013, 06:54 AM
Yeah, it's like a foreign country, Jon. One expects that no one who lives in those enclaves stays there unless they are prepared to "roll with it" (NOT, of course, that sexual abuse is EVER tolerable regardless of the culture perpetuating it. *Sputtering*).

I remember once in Israel, where husband and I were once treated with a good deal of consternation (to say the least) when passing through an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood on Yom Kippur. On the way to the beach! (Don't recall whether or not I was wearing a bathing suit).

Lucky we weren't stoned, I guess. :hair:
In retrospect, a pretty ignorant - even disrespectful - thing to do, though.

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Probably would have been more fun stoned.
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