Author Topic: Ultra Orthodox shunned those for reporting sexual abuse of children  (Read 2009 times)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/nyregion/ultra-orthodox-jews-shun-their-own-for-reporting-child-sexual-abuse.html

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By cooperating with the police, and speaking out about his son’s abuse, Mr. Jungreis, 38, found himself at the painful forefront of an issue roiling his insular Hasidic community. There have been glimmers of change as a small number of ultra-Orthodox Jews, taking on longstanding religious and cultural norms, have begun to report child sexual abuse accusations against members of their own communities. But those who come forward often encounter intense intimidation from their neighbors and from rabbinical authorities, aimed at pressuring them to drop their cases.

Abuse victims and their families have been expelled from religious schools and synagogues, shunned by fellow ultra-Orthodox Jews and targeted for harassment intended to destroy their businesses. Some victims’ families have been offered money, ostensibly to help pay for therapy for the victims, but also to stop pursuing charges, victims and victims’ advocates said.

Protecting children? Nope. The Hasidic community would rather uphold archaic authority than stop violence against children.
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My beef against religion has always been that it fucks up the sense of morality amongst the most extreme. This is another example.

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Damnit, Hasidics, stop making the rest of us Jews look bad!

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Wow.....and this time it's not even the rabbis who are the kiddie fiddlers.  Just perverts who these idiots want to protect.

Ironbite-really overstepping your bounds there ya putzes.

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Fundies sure do seem to be trying their hardest to make their own religions look bad.
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Fundies sure do seem to be trying their hardest to make their own religions look bad.
They don't need that much help.
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I was talking about the Ultra-Orthodox who were suppressing reports of child sex abuse.
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I'd like to see the mental gymnastics those schmucks are going through to justify this. Suppressing justice ain't no mitzvah.
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