Mendel Tevel, who was arrested in Beverly Hills in Oct. 2013 and then extradited to Brooklyn on charges of sexual abuse stemming from an Apr. 2007 incident, pleaded guilty in a New York courtroom before Judge Elizabeth Foley on Apr. 24 to two counts of criminal sexual acts in the third degree, according to Lupe…
DetailsEAST WINDSOR, NJ — An East Windsor man who works as a teacher at the Shalom Torah Academy in Monmouth County has been charged with child sexual assault, authorities said on Friday.
The rabbi and children’s teacher from East Windsor charged with sexual assault will not be released from pretrial detention, a state judge ruled Wednesday in upholding his earlier ruling.
Rabbi Meir Pogrow, a prominent rabbi and educator living in Beit Shemesh, has been accused of misusing his authority and position for his sexual gratification by an ad hoc rabbinical court of senior rabbis in Israel and the US, which issued a warning notice instructing women to avoid all contact with the individual.
RABBI Baruch Lesches has told the Royal Commission that when a 12-year-old girl complained to him about being sexually abused he had his doubts about her story because “she was prone to bend the truth to get out of trouble”.
The rabbi at the centre of a police investigation into an alleged historic sexual assault was accused of having “no boundaries” when “vulnerable people” were sent to him for advice, according to evidence given to an official government inquiry. A witness statement to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said Rabbi Chaim Halpern, 64,…
DetailsA prominent Edgewood rabbi is asking a court to throw out a $20 million verdict against him and order a new trial on sexual abuse allegations.
A Monsey rabbi accused of sexually abusing a 7-year-old boy pleaded guilty Tuesday to a lesser charge of endangering the welfare of a child.
Police have uncovered social media accounts allegedly used to reach out to women that they believe belong to a prominent Rabbi Ezra Scheinberg from northern Israel recently accused of multiple sex crimes.
An indictment was submitted by the state prosecutor on Monday morning to the Nazereth District Court against Rabbi Ezra Scheinberg, who faces complaints of severe sexual abuse from no less than 13 women.
