(A note about this article: The reasoning for posting this article is not to sow fear and mass paranoia. Statistically, the chances of any particular father sexual abusing their children is extremely low. The purpose is to inform parents that this type of abuse does happen, and for those parents who may have real reason […]
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Can Child Sexual Abuse Affect Long-term Health
TranscriptIn the 1980s, Dr. Vincent Felitti, now director of the California Institute of Preventive Medicine in San Diego, discovered something potentially revolutionary about the ripple effects of child sexual abuse. He discovered it while trying to solve a very different health problem: helping severely obese people lose weight.Felitti, a specialist in preventive medicine, was trying out a […]
How the US Government Is Training Wounded Warriors to Hunt Child Predators
From ABC News Marine Sgt. Justin Gaertner lost both his legs in a roadside bomb explosion while serving in the Helmand province of Afghanistan on November 26, 2010. No longer able to serve his country in the U.S. military, Justin now has a new mission: Bringing to justice child sexual predators. He took a risk and signed […]
School bus driver molested 4-year-old boy: Cops
SPRING VALLEY – A 27-year-old private school bus driver has been charged with molesting a 4-year-old boy, police said Wednesday. Shlomo Erps, of Nancy Lane, Monsey, was arrested on a felony charge of first-degree sexual abuse, Spring Valley police Detective Robert Bookstein said. Erps is accused of making sexual contact with a child on the bus […]
Mother speaks out regarding rabbi accused of molesting child
WSVN-TV – 7NEWS Miami Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Deco MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) — The mother of an 11-year-old who has accused a South Florida rabbi of inappropriately touching her is speaking out, saying she has been shunned by the Jewish community and has even received bribes to stay quiet. The mother, who chose to […]
Mother claims Jewish community shutting her out amid rabbi molestation allegations
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – The mother of an 11-year-old girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a Miami Beach rabbi said she’s being ostracized by members of the congregation after coming forward to police. “I’m just so hurt, and my daughter and I are just trying to repair and move […]
3 Reasons Children Keep Abuse “A Secret”
Republished from American SPCC Silence is a child abuser’s best friend. You name it. Any kind of abuse… physical, sexual, emotional and even neglect… flourishes under the cloud of silence. Child abusers know this… and use this to their advantage. To ensure silence, abusers will often implore children to keep the abuse “our little secret” […]
Supreme Court allows children’s indirect testimony in child abuse cases
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that teachers’ reports of child abuse based on conversations with young children can be admitted as testimony, despite a defendant’s constitutional right to confront his accuser. The unanimous judgment came in the case of a 3½-year-old Ohio boy whose wounds were visible to teachers at his day care […]
I watched the Safety video but how exactly do I convey the urgency?
A mother showed JCW’s summer safety video to her children and then reached out to Pattie Fitzgerald with the following question: I speak to my kids about body safety regularly and have been doing so for a number of years now. my nine year old watched the video and then said to me: “well if […]
Child sex crimes soar with 85 new offences recorded each day in the UK
Child sex crimes are soaring with the police recording 85 new offences every day, according to the latest figures. Last year more than 31,000 reports of abuse, including rape and assault were made to the police in England and Wales, according to statistics published by the NSPCC. This was an increase of more than a third […]
Mikvahs, Saunas And The Role of Leadership
Michael J. Salamon Daniel Kahneman, in his book, “Thinking Fast and Slow,” pointed out that self-control requires attentiveness and determination. Most individuals, however, react promptly, even impulsively without taking the time to perform a clear analysis. Decisions made in haste are often made according to cognitive delusions we all have, two of them are among […]
Sex-Abuse Bill Stalls Once More in NY State Capital
Attempts to revamp the statute of limitations for sexual-abuse cases involving minors slow
Wyoming man gets 714 years for sexual abuse of a child in Burnet County
From the Daily Trib BURNET — When Grady Hodge filed a request under the Interstate Detainers Act to force Burnet County authorities to take his case to trial within 180 days, he might have been gambling that the district attorney’s office wouldn’t be able to get it done. And with his appeal on two sexual […]
Child sexual abuse cases don’t develop out of ‘thin air,’ detectives say
Jay Meisel | Highlands Today SEBRING — A mere accusation that someone sexually abused a child doesn’t automatically result in the accused being arrested on child abuse charges, investigators said Friday. “We don’t just pluck a case out of the air and take it to the state attorney’s office, said Sgt. Anthony McGann of the Highlands […]
Todros Grynhaus Abuse Victim Threatened
The Jewish Telegraph reports that the father of a sex abuse victim claims his daughter and witnesses were threatened during the recent trial of charedi teacher Todros Grynhaus, of Salford. Todros, 50, was convicted at Manchester Crown Court of two charges of sexual abuse against two females and is awaiting sentencing. A further charge against […]
Shabbat Guest Sentenced to 34-Years for Molesting Multiple Children
Michael Revzin, of Milwaukee, has been sentenced to 21 years in prison and 13 years of extended supervision after he had been arrested for sexually abusing and exposing himself to two different children under the age of 13. As part of a plea deal, four other charges of sexual abuse were dismissed. The victims were […]
Op-Ed: Synagogues with predatory rabbis must protect their members, not their reputations
By Deborah Rosenbloom. Published in the JTA. WASHINGTON (JTA) — When I read the recent article in The New York Times detailing the accusations against Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt of the Riverdale Jewish Center, I was deeply saddened. This is the synagogue and community where I grew up. My parents moved to Riverdale in the 1950s and are among […]
Victim of Mendel Tevel Delivers his Victim Impact Statement in Court
My name is …….. …… and I am the victim of sexual abuse. The man who abused me is named Mendel. I met him when he was my dorm counselor at a boy’s yeshiva. He took advantage of the position of authority he had over me and used it to physically and sexually abuse me. […]
[Video] What You Most Know Before Sending Your Kids To Camp
In the coming weeks, thousands of parents in our community will send their children to overnight camp. For most, this will be a thrilling experience with wonderful friendships and memories to last a lifetime. Unfortunately, a small percentage of these campers will return home with devastating memories of sexual abuse at the hands of […]
Mendel Tevel sentenced to one year in prison on sex abuse charges
By Jared Sichel for the Jewish Journal Nearly two years after his arrest in Beverly Hills on sexual abuse charges, Mendel Tevel was sentenced on June 8 in a Brooklyn court to one year in prison, a spokesperson with the Brooklyn district attorney’s office confirmed with the Jewish Journal. On Apr. 24, Tevel pleaded guilty […]
Mendel Tevel sentenced – JCW Responds
Today Mendel Tevel was sentenced to one year in prison for child sexual abuse. This is a man who committed evil acts, a man who victimized the innocent, and a man who destroyed lives. He manipulated his community and in-laws to become accomplices in his crimes by harboring and defending him. This man abused his […]
[Radio] Secrets And Realities Of US Child Sex Abuse
“In the united states, we have a response to child sexual abuse that’s after the fact. We need to shift to a prevention focus to child sexual abuse” NPR’s Tom Ashbrook looks at the reality of child sex abuse in this 45 minute discussion with leading CSA experts.
What Can We Do About Child Sexual Abuse? – Monsey Event Highlights
Highlights from JCW’s April 19, Monsey Event. LIKE JCW on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JewishCommunityWatch.Org
Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt responds to N.Y. Times story
JTA NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt asserted his innocence in his first public comment since the publication of a New York Times article about his habit of inviting young males to join him for naked heart-to-heart talks in the sauna. In a letter sent Thursday to congregants of his Orthodox synagogue, the Riverdale Jewish Center […]
Please Don’t Kiss Me – Respecting My Child’s Personal Boundaries.
Republished from picklebums.com He has never been a touchy feely kind of kid. As a toddler he pushed away as often as he reached out, as a school kid he doles out his hugs fiercely but selectively, and he has never liked kisses. It doesn’t mean he doesn’t love you. If you give him time you […]