Name: Anonymous 2012-07-03 16:58
Rabbi rapes young girl. Entire Jewish community threatens... raped girl!
BROOKLYN — For Hershy Deutsch, it was a living nightmare. Thugs allegedly vandalized his business. His Facebook page was flooded with violent threats, including a posted picture of a man in a hospital bed accompanied by a promise that he'd soon resemble the image. Strangers in the street screamed for his blood, he said.
All this because his teenage girlfriend broke the code of silence in Williamsburg's close-knit Satmar Hasidic community, going to police with accusations that Rabbi Nechemya Weberman, a popular and respected community counselor, had sexually abused her.
"They were screaming after me," Deutsch told DNAinfo.com New York. "They surrounded my car, like 200 people screaming 'come out of the car — we'll kill you.'" Fierce tactics of intimidation and coercion are nothing new for sexual abuse victims who seek justice from inside Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves. But Deutsch's story is unique in one respect — four men who allegedly approached him to relay an offer of $500,000 in hush money if his girlfriend dropped her case are now facing criminal charges after a first-of-its-kind arrest.
Though religious opinion is divided on whether sex abuse cases should be handled by rabbinical or secular authorities, many in the borough's Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox enclaves cling to the belief that going to (the Goy's) police with any accusation against another Jew is forbidden .
In public, at least, the community rallies around the accused, often with devastating consequences for the victim.
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120702/crown-heights/victims-boyfriend-allegedly-targeted-after-orthodoc-abuse-case#ixzz1zacynJxr
BROOKLYN — For Hershy Deutsch, it was a living nightmare. Thugs allegedly vandalized his business. His Facebook page was flooded with violent threats, including a posted picture of a man in a hospital bed accompanied by a promise that he'd soon resemble the image. Strangers in the street screamed for his blood, he said.
All this because his teenage girlfriend broke the code of silence in Williamsburg's close-knit Satmar Hasidic community, going to police with accusations that Rabbi Nechemya Weberman, a popular and respected community counselor, had sexually abused her.
"They were screaming after me," Deutsch told DNAinfo.com New York. "They surrounded my car, like 200 people screaming 'come out of the car — we'll kill you.'" Fierce tactics of intimidation and coercion are nothing new for sexual abuse victims who seek justice from inside Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves. But Deutsch's story is unique in one respect — four men who allegedly approached him to relay an offer of $500,000 in hush money if his girlfriend dropped her case are now facing criminal charges after a first-of-its-kind arrest.
Though religious opinion is divided on whether sex abuse cases should be handled by rabbinical or secular authorities, many in the borough's Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox enclaves cling to the belief that going to (the Goy's) police with any accusation against another Jew is forbidden .
In public, at least, the community rallies around the accused, often with devastating consequences for the victim.
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120702/crown-heights/victims-boyfriend-allegedly-targeted-after-orthodoc-abuse-case#ixzz1zacynJxr