 | By Murray Weiss, DNAinfo.com June 21, 2012 BROOKLYN — Four men were arrested Thursday morning for allegedly offering a $500,000 bribe to a sexually abused teenager to get her to drop charges against a popular Orthodox community counselor who is presently on trial in Brooklyn. READ MORE |
Add Comment This is your new blog post. Click here and start typing, or drag in elements from the top bar.  Lakewood in Ocean County, NJ, is home to some 40,000 Orthodox Jews.Court testimony offers rare public glimpse into religious tribunals’ handling of child sex abuse allegations; no reporting to police. Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Hella Winston Special To The Jewish Week Last spring in a New Jersey courtroom, a prosecutor and defense attorney battled it out in a series of seemingly routine pre-trial hearings. At issue was a narrow point of law: whether or not a social worker who had evaluated an alleged child molester would be allowed to testify at his trial.Amid the legal wrangling, however, facts emerged that were anything but ordinary — ones perhaps amplified by the recent revelations about alleged sexual abuse scandals at Penn State and Syracuse universities. READ MORE |
