About four in 1,000 kids who did not participate in the prevention programs reported some form of sexual abuse, compared to 14 of every 1,000 kids in the prevention programs, the authors report in the Cochrane Library.
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[Video] JCW LA EVENT: We Will Not Apologize!
Highlights from this Jewish Community Watch event in LA
[Video] “Dear Tatty…” — Rabbi Greenwald reads a chilling suicide letter
Rabbi Ronald Greenwald reads a devastation suicide note from a victim of abuse at a JCW event in Monsey.
[Video] Rabbi Yossi Jacobson – Four Messages on Child Sexual Abuse
Rabbi Yossi Jacobson, world renowned orator, addresses the Monsey community on child sexual abuse.
Teacher ‘annoyed at being caught’ when sex abuse allegations made, court hears
A leading rabbi has told a court that a Jewish teacher was “annoyed at being caught” when confronted with allegations of serious sexual abuse in front of his wife as part of a secret meeting.
Adass Israel School principal’s exit arranged by school council member, court told
A member of a Melbourne school council arranged plane tickets to whisk its principal, wanted on child sex abuse charges, out of the country, a court has heard.
JCW saved my son from sexual abuse
Without question, JCW saved the lives of my son and his friends.
South Fallsburg rabbincal student faces child sex abuse charges
Haim Boukris, 29, of South Fallsburg, was arrested April 23 on a sealed indictment charging him with three counts of predatory sexual assault against a child and first-degree sexual abuse, felonies.
Jpost: ‘Major progress made on addressing sexual abuse in orthodox community’
Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, the founder of Project YES, speaks about the improvements made in reporting abuse in the haredi community and the challenges that remain.
Jewish Chronicle: Girl told to ‘enjoy it’ by alleged sex abuser
A woman who claims she was sexually abused as a teenager by a strictly Orthodox teacher burst into tears in court as she described being ordered to “enjoy it” while she was molested.
Jewish Chronicle: Alleged sex offender Todros Grynhaus had ‘demons running through him’
First day of a retrial at Manchester Crown Court
Jewish Journal: Beverly Hills resident Mendel Tevel pleads guilty in Brooklyn to sex abuse charges
Tevel pleaded guilty to only two counts of a “criminal sexual act in the third degree,” which, as described by the New York penal code, constitutes anal or oral sex with someone who is either under 17 or is otherwise incapable of providing legal consent.
When a 6’9″ football player brought the room – and himself to tears
Events in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh, organized by Jewish Community Watch and Magen, draw attention to abuse and support survivors.
JEWISH COMMUNITY WATCH RAISING AWARENESS IN MONSEY
Report and reflections on JCW’s historic event in Monsey by an attendee
The Battle of my Recovery and My Abuse
I was abused
Taken advantage of
My body felt dirty and shameful
The pain was so deep, so intense
I needed to numb it out
I couldn’t bear to remember
So I stopped eating.
NY bill would nix statute of limitations on child sex abuse
A group of advocates who work to fight child sex abuse is asking New York state lawmakers to eliminate the statute of limitations on certain sex crimes committed against minors. Legislation that would eliminate the time restraints on the reporting of child sex abuse is pending in the state’s Legislature. Advocates plan to gather at […]
The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Response to JCW
Founder and CEO of Jewish Community Watch Meyer Seewald recounts an amazing episode that occurred at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens.
Jewish Community Watch Coming to Israel to Fight the Epidemic of Child Sexual Abuse
U.S. based Jewish Community Watch (JCW) to team up with Israeli based Magen for CSA awareness events in Beit Shemesh and Jerusalem
Summer Camp Safety Tips from JCW
Pattie Fitzgerald, Prevention Education Advisor for Jewish Community Watch, gives parents summer camp safety tips
Parents claim Yeshiva University High School covered up decades of sexual abuse
Republished from the NY Post He lost a lawsuit against Yeshiva University’s prestigious all-boys school involving alleged decades-long sex abuse — so his parents are now trying to make an end-run at justice. In what their lawyer calls a first-of-its-kind move in the state, Israel and Chaya Gutman are set to file a lawsuit Monday […]
1 In 3 Teen Boys Who Experience Sexual Assault Attempt Suicide; Stigma, Fear May Increase Risk
The stigma behind sexual assault may deter teen boys from reporting it, putting them at risk of attempting suicide.
Reported child sexual abuse has risen 60% in the UK in the last four years, figures show
Republished from The Guardian. There has been a 60% increase in child sexual abuse reported to the police over the past four years, according to official figures which make public for the first time the scale of the problem in England and Wales. A House of Commons library analysis based on freedom of information releases […]
96-year-old paedophile becomes oldest prisoner
Britain’s oldest paedophile becomes the country’s most senior prisoner after being jailed at the age of 96 for sexually assaulting girls in the early 1950s
Egypt: A Passover Poem by a Survivor
As I was sitting at the seder table, Hearing the story of my ancestors being freed, I began to cry in silence, Because redemption is what I need. The Jews in Egypt went through hell, Burying each other because it was too much to survive, I think of days I am falling apart, Wishing I […]
“Why can’t you just let it go?”
An area of sexual abuse that deserves particular attention and is not discussed often enough is abuse within families, also known as incest. In addition to the many well known effects that any child of abuse goes through, survivors of incest are forced to endure a very unique set of circumstances. Our heart are prayers […]
