Eliezer Berland, formerly rabbi and dean of the Shuvu Banim yeshiva who was convicted of sexual offenses, sent to prison, and released to house arrest because of his health, has expressed remorse for his actions.
EAST 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.
A man who raped, sexually abused and then beat his victims to ensure their silence has been jailed for 22 years.
The suspect in an alleged rape in Netanya was released by a court Wednesday after the complainant left the hospital before the police could take her testimony.
A 37-year-old Jerusalem man was arrested last week for committing sexual offenses against several minors.
The parole board headed by retired Judge Shlomo Isaacson has decided that the sentence handed to Rabbi Eliezer Berland is to be shortened by a third.
The arrest Monday of 22 ultra-Orthodox suspects on sexual offenses allegedly committed over the past two years against juveniles and women comes at a time of major change in the attitude of the Haredi public regarding the handling of sexual offenses.
The police arrested 22 Haredim in Jerusalem and three other Israeli cities on Monday morning, on suspicion of sexually molesting minors and women over the last two years.
Authorities filed an indictment Thursday against a Beit Shemesh man suspected of sexually assaulting a young boy next door to a synagogue, and then paying him a small sum to ensure he did not divulge what had happened.
