Michael Lesher writes in the New York Post:<\/p>\n
The numbers are startling \u2014 in the past two years, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes\u2019 office says it has arrested and charged 89 Orthodox Jewish men with child sex abuse.
\nIt\u2019s horrific and shocking, though in terms of effective law enforcement and honest dealings with the public, finally a good thing.
\nSome background: The Brooklyn DA has been accused for years by child advocates of handling the insular, image-conscious Orthodox Jewish community with kid gloves over sex-abuse scandals. Those familiar with abuse survivors from within that community \u2014 myself included \u2014 have complained that Hynes is too fearful of retaliation from a politically powerful religious bloc to hold its sex abuse perpetrators to the same standard applied elsewhere in Brooklyn.
\nHynes, who denies this, claimed in 2009 to have arrested 26 Orthodox Jewish men for sex abuse over a two-year period \u2014 a claim that drew some praise at the time, but also some skepticism for being just too good to be true. But now the DA is double-daring (or triple-daring) his doubters, claiming that since October 2009, the rate of sex-abuse arrests within that community has more than tripled, all the way up to 89.<\/p>\n
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Michael Lesher writes in the New York Post: The numbers are startling \u2014 in the past two years, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes\u2019 office says it has arrested and charged 89 Orthodox Jewish men with child sex abuse. It\u2019s horrific … Continue reading