Event draws crowd of 300, hearing from survivors of child sexual abuse and learning ways to prevent it. Three hundred people from the Jewish community in Pittsburgh gathered in Squirrel Hill’s Jewish Community Center this past Sunday in order to work together to battle child sexual abuse. The event was run by Jewish Community Watch […]
Republished from schoolcounselingbyheart.com When thinking about perpetrators of child sexual abuse, many people picture an image of a creepy stranger. Parents and schools generally do a pretty good job of teaching their kids about “stranger danger.” But this is not where most of the danger lies. The vast majority of sexual abusers are known to […]
CJN Reports: Stephen Joseph Schacter, a former teacher at two Toronto-area Jewish day schools, was re-arrested this week in connection with several new sexual offences. Schacter, 55, was charged with one count of gross indecency, one count of sexual interference, one count of sexual exploitation and two counts of sexual assault. Police say the charges date […]
Yankie Kaff, who was convicted and sentenced for course of sexual conduct against a child in the second degree, was released from prison last week. Under the law, a person is guilty of Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in the Second Degree when, over a period of time not less than three months […]
From the Jewish Week. Will the Jewish women who claim sexual abuse by their headmistress get to see her go to trial? Or will Malka Leifer become the next Avrohom Mondrowitz — another alleged abuser who won’t be extradited from Israel to stand trial. Mondrowitz, an American Orthodox rabbi, fled the U.S. in 1985 before […]
Canadian Jews News Reports The one-time director of Leo Baeck School in Toronto was arrested in California earlier this month on child pornography charges. David Prashker, 60, was charged Feb. 22 with possession and distribution of child pornography and attempting to destroy evidence. Prashker served as director of Leo Baeck School from 2004 to 2008, […]
At 1:12 AM on 2/24/16, JCW received the following update from the NYPD: “The person in the photo was cleared as a suspect. The female has stopped cooperating with the investigation.” If any further information becomes available we will post it here. VosIzNeias reports: Brooklyn, NY – An enhanced photograph released by the NYPD […]
By Curtis. Wildfong for the Holland Sentinel. The line differentiating a close, personal relationship between an adult and a child and one that is paving the way for potential abuse can be razor thin. At first, they can look the same; a special bond between the two. The child will confide with the adult, share […]
Dear God, It’s hard to feel and be in my life. I want to forget. I feel shattered. I feel broken. Today is my daughter’s sixth birthday. Six years of her having a safe, protective and loving environment. Six years of tender love from my husband and myself. Her voice was always heard, never crushed. […]
These letters were submitted by two sisters who were molested from a very young age over a period of more than three years by an adult, male cousin who would often stay in their home. These letters speak to the pain and suffering endured by these young girls, to the trauma that continues to haunt […]
To my dear brothers and sisters, to mothers, fathers, and any caregivers of young, precious, and innocent souls: I feel compelled to write about the vicious and cruel acts that were perpetrated against me. It’s hard to truly be honest about what he’s done to me, especially in a community that chooses sometimes to protect […]
By by UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis for the Jewish News. IT’S SEXUAL abuse and Sexual Violence Awareness Week across the UK – the first of its kind, aiming to generate a frank and necessary public conversation about a crime as old as the taboo that has, shamefully, protected it. It is a poor reflection […]
Ruth Krevsky, a courageous survivor of child sexual abuse, goes public at a JCW awareness event in Montreal Canada.
I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. That sentence sounds so official and intimidating as if it’s a diagnosis. As if that sentence is forever going to precede every action and every thought I ever have. And yes, once upon a time being a survivor was the most important thing I ever had to […]
