Geller is the owner and director of Camp Agav.
In a telephone conversation on Wednesday May 8, 2013, Geller admitted that he is the person who runs this camp, but because of the allegations against him he might be taking a "sabbatical" this summer. When asked who will be taking his place he responded, "for all intents and purposes I am the one in charge- and perhaps in the end I wont be taking a break ...."
ALERT!! Parents BEWARE. Rabbi Tzvi Geller is a dangerous pedophile. Protect your Children! | |
Geller has recently changed his appearance
as well as his name. He is now known
as Tzvi GALLER.
| The following advertisement can be found in the May 2, 2013 edition of the Flatbush Jewish Journal.
Ad-Kan has been approached by a Boro Park Rabbi requesting that we remove Gellers name from our list of molesters. We agreed to remove him after he takes a lie detector test and receives an evaluation.
Geller has refused to do either of the above!
Rabbi Geller operates mainly from Marine Park where he runs a baseball league, and also from a Boro Park shul.
Ad-Kan is aware of individual victims and is trying hard to stop Geller's monstrous operation which is happening right under our very noses!
Local Rabbonim and Askanim have been approached for help and so far have declined to do anything to stop Geller from working with kids.
It is now up to YOU the parents to get together and refuse to allow Geller to use Marine Park as his hunting grounds!
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE!
Together let us STOP Geller from preying on little boys and destroying more children's lives than he has to date.
| | As the Daily News reported on April 18th, Meir Dascalowitz has pleaded guilty to sexually molesting a teen in the mikvah. Those who have followed the case know the courage it took for the teen’s father, Mordechai Jungreis, to bring charges; his Williamsburg community which claims to value due process and an assumption of innocence until proven guilty, has shunned him, he was forced to leave his previous apartment, the shul he had always davened at and had his kids expelled from school, but he prevailed and the accused was forced to face the justice system. The New York Times covered some of the tremendous pressure Mordechai has faced here. | This coming Wednesday May 1st 2013, Meir Dascalowitz will face Judge Gubbay for his sentencing. Please join us in supporting the Jungreis family and applauding their trailblazing work in facing down evil and intimidation in order to make the world a safer place.
MagenuThe Brooklyn Children’s Safety InitiativeContact: Shani Verschleiser, Director Email: info@magenu.orgwww.magenu.orgThousands of New York children safer—thanks to Magenu. Brooklyn, NY (April 2013) – It’s been only nine months since Magenu, the Children’s Safety organization, was launched by a proactive Brooklyn couple determined to protect children through education. Since then, 2,099 children, 427 teachers, and 956 parents in Brooklyn have been educated by the Magenu “Be Safe!” program—becoming empowered with essential safety tools. “Every child has the right to explore the world without being worried about personal safety,” asserts Magenu’s Director, Shani Verschleiser, AuD, who founded the organization along with her husband Eli Verschleiser. “And it is the responsibility of every community to ensure that right.” Magenu’s vision for community safety is broad. Aside from their bringing Safety Kid—an award-winning program lauded for its cultural sensitivity and effectiveness in preventing abuse—to every Jewish school, their plan to heighten general safety awareness in other ways is well underway. Last month, they unrolled the Magenu Comic Series, an educational series focusing on various seasonal safety concerns, published in numerous media outlets and available free of charge for distribution to schools and shuls. For Purim, the full-color, professionally-designed comic highlighted the dangers of underage drinking; for Pesach, the focus was on maintaining safety during Chol HaMoed outings, an important topic for the frum community. “As the summer approaches and daily structure dwindles, the risks multiply tenfold,” says Shani. “It is precisely during free, unstructured time that safety is most compromised, whether in the form of getting lost in public places or an incident of inappropriate touch.” Under the direct guidance of rabbonim, Magenu is determined to bolster in the frum community awareness—and adherence to—basic safety guidelines. “Our children are our most valuable assets,” says Eli Verschleiser, a Wall Street executive who has taken up Magenu’s cause with a passion. “Nothing is foolproof—but as parents and as communities, we have an obligation to empower our children to stay safe.”
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press release from the D.A.:
KINGS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY CHARLES J. HYNES ANNOUNCES CONVICTION OF PRINICPAL OF PRIVATE JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL FOR SEXUAL ABUSE OF THREE BOYS OVER THE COURSE OF TEN YEARS
Brooklyn, December 3, 2012- Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced the conviction of Emanuel Yegutkin, 33, for sexually abusing three young boys over the course of 10 years.
Yegutkin was convicted before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Dineen Riviezzo on 75 counts of charges including three counts of Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in the First Degree, two counts of Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in the Second Degree, and multiple counts of Criminal Sexual Act in the Second Degree, Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree, Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree, and Endangering the Welfare of a Child.
| The top charge, Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in the First Degree carries a maximum sentence of 25 years.
Yegutkin will be back in court on December 17 to announce a sentencing date.
District Attorney Hynes said, “This violent sexual predator faces the remainder of his life behind bars. This should serve as a clear message that those who would sexually abuse children in this county will be punished severely.”
Yegutkin was a principal of a private Jewish high school in Brooklyn. He became a close friend of the victims’ family after attending the school where the victims’ father worked, and visited their home frequently. The victims did not attend Yegutkin’s school. From 1996 to 2005, Yegutkin sexually abused two of the boys when they were ages seven to 15-years-old, and in 2008, exposed the third boy to pornography. He forced them to perform sex acts including fondling and oral sex. Yegutkin was arrested in January 2009.
At trial, the three victims testified against Yegutkin. The trial began on October 18th. The jury, consisting of seven men and five women, were in deliberations since November 29. They came back with a guilty verdict today, finding Yegutkin guilty on all 75 counts.
The case was prosecuted by Rachel Schmidt, First Deputy Bureau Chief of the Sex Crimes Bureau and Lauren Traum, Senior Trial Attorney of the Sex Crimes Bureau. Rhonnie Jaus is Chief of the Sex Crimes Bureau.
Misaskim was notified about a situation that occurred at a Flatbush Girls school during yesterday’s dismissal.
(November 15th)
Please read below:
Yesterday at 4 PM as our girls were being dismissed, we noticed a man taking pictures of our girls on his cell phone. One school administrator confronted him and asked him what he was doing. He said, “None of your business,” and began to run away.
Two of us chased him on foot for 10 blocks and with the help of 3 Flatbush Shomrim we caught him on Foster Ave. near Ocean Avenue. The Shomrim were able to get his cell phone and discovered several pictures of little frum girls from different Yeshivos ( by the uniforms that they were wearing) on his phone.
We are including the picture of the perpetrator in this email message. Please call police and shomrim if you spot this guy near your school building.
 Nearly every day I see one of the sexual predators who participated in the Nachlaot pedophile ring. While I hate seeing that these criminals have not yet been arrested, at least I know who they are so I can warn my children to stay far away from them.
But most Israeli parents and children would have no way of knowing that a neighbor or (God forbid) schoolbus driver or soccer coach etc. is a pedophile. Please sign this petition to pressure Israel to FINALLY establish a public registry of sexual offenders (like the one that exists in the United States) so that we parents in Israel can keep our children safe.
Click here to learn more and sign the petition
Yerachmiel Lopin Frumfollies.com October 22, 2012
Nechemye Weberman goes on trial on Tuesday October 30, 2012 in the Brooklyn Supreme Court on multiple felony charges of molesting a girl. I urge all of you to attend as much of the trial as possible.
Jurors are only supposed to pay attention to the evidence and arguments of the DA and the defendant’s lawyers. However, the defense will try to discredit the witness as bizarre and vengeful. I suspect that jurors will not be able to notice a contingent of supporters of the victim and this may influence their thinking.
However, this is not the main argument for attending. In fact I would say that attending is worthwhile even in the unlikely event that Weberman is acquitted. Above all else, attendance sends a message to this victim and every other victim that they are not alone. It sends the message that there are others in the community who believe the victim and support her.
In planning your attendance keep in mind that the trial will probably run 2-3 weeks. A big showing is important at the start and at the end because it will get media attention which will amplify our message to other victims, others in the community, and to the larger public. During the trial it would be helpful to spread out coverage rather than going from feast to famine. So if possible, plan your own attendance accordingly.
| The case of Nechemya Weberman
By William Peacock, Esq. on July 20, 2012
Sexual assault cases often come down to "he said, she said" scenarios. She said that Nechemya Weberman, a leader in the Orthodox Jewish community and counselor, sexually abused her for three years, beginning when she was twelve.
Weberman is claiming that it is all a revenge plot. Weberman claims that he persuaded her father to film the girl having sex with her over-age boyfriend and to file a complaint with the district attorney for statutory rape, reports the New York Daily News.
| Nechemya Weberman (L.) smiling and confident arrives for hearing on rape charge at Brooklyn Supreme Court, June 2012
| Now, the defense is seeking to introduce the sex tape at trial. If the defense is correct, and it is all a revenge plot, then the tape is crucial evidence. If they are misleading the court or themselves mistaken, they will parading the victim's sexual history and essentially put the victim on trial. The debate over protecting the victim versus the defendant's right to put on his own defense is the crux of the Rape Shield Law.
The Rape Shield Law prohibits the presentation of the sexual history of the accuser, unless the evidence:
- proves or tends to prove specific instances of the victim's prior sexual conduct with the accused; or
- proves or tends to prove that the victim has been convicted of an offense under section 230.00 of the penal law within three years prior to the sex offense which is the subject of the prosecution; or
- rebuts evidence introduced by the people of the victim's failure to engage in sexual intercourse, oral sexual conduct, anal sexual conduct or sexual contact during a given period of time; or
- rebuts evidence introduced by the people which proves or tends to prove that the accused is the cause of pregnancy or disease of the victim, or the source of semen found in the victim; or
- is determined by the court after an offer of proof by the accused outside the hearing of the jury, or such hearing as the court may require, and a statement by the court of its findings of fact essential to its determination, to be relevant and admissible in the interests of justice.
The only relevant provision to this case would be the final provision, the catch-all provision. It allows the court, in its discretion, to allow the evidence to be admissible "in the interests of justice." The motive of the accused is certainly something that might qualify under the "interests of justice" provision.
The District Attorney's office has verified that, in 2010, the accuser's father and the defendant did, in fact, come into the office to file a complaint about alleged statutory rape. This corroborates the "revenge motive" theory. Whether or not it is enough to convince the judge to admit the evidence remains to be seen.
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