Middlesex County, NJ – Camp Counselor Charged With Sex Crime in New Jersey

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    Middlesex County, NJ – A camp counselor from New Jersey has been charged in connection with a 12-year-old alleged indecent assault crime.

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    Rabbi Aryeh Goodman, 30, Director of the Chabad House of East Brunswick in Middlesex County, New Jersey stands accused of inappropriate contact with a minor male camper in 2001 at Camp Menachem in Pike County, Pennsylvania.

    Goodman’s alleged victim came forward to press charges last summer, but it apparently took some time for police to obtain a warrant to arrest the rabbi, according to reports in The Times-Tribune (http://bit.ly/UQ4Bm0) and the Pocono News (http://bit.ly/Vvo6Pg).

    According to his biography on Chabad’s website (http://bit.ly/ZdolPM), Goodman is a New Jersey native who studied at yeshivot in Brooklyn, Toronto and New Jersey before earning his rabbinic ordination in Sydney, Australia. Goodman is not listed as an official Rabbi on Chabad’s international website Chabad.org

    Goodman is currently in the custody of the Middlesex County Sherriff’s office and is awaiting extradition to Pike County.


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    GevalDigeh
    GevalDigeh
    11 years ago

    Oyyyy nebech nebech. I hope this is not true and he will be freed from jail very soon

    11 years ago

    I am saddened to read this because I know the family. A person is innocent until proven guilty. Why is it that so many people are coming forward making accusations? If a person is inappropriate with a child, he or she deserves to be punished. On the other hand anyone could accuse anyone of anything. Lives are ruined on both sides. Camps and yeshivas need to have a rule when it comes to children being in the company of adults. A child should never be left alone with one person. Other children or adults need to be present.

    zackk
    zackk
    11 years ago

    He’s not listed on Chabad.org because he is a mushroom (a shliach who went out on his own and not through head quarters) and not recognized by Chabad international.

    everymom
    everymom
    11 years ago

    False accusations ruin lives just as tragically as accusations which are proven true. May Hashem grant mercy and justice to those who are falsely accused, as Rabbi Goodman surely is.

    11 years ago

    Not a Chabad rabbi.

    everymom
    everymom
    11 years ago

    No finer or more innocent person has ever been accused. It makes me physically ill to think of Rabbi Goodman in jail, accused of something he isn’t capable of even imagining. Yes, there are sick people out there, but not Rabbi Goodman. False accusations ruin lives just as tragically as accusations which are proven true. May Hashem grant mercy and justice to those who are falsely accused, may He heal true victims, and speedily punish the truly guilty. And may He set this upside-down world right again.

    shredready
    shredready
    11 years ago

    I do not know him however knowing him is not proof of his innocence

    A molester it not the creepy guy next door. Many time it is people who otherwise very normal and respected. Sadly it is very hard to detect a molestor.

    He may be guilty or may be innocent But if falsely accused. the accusar must be severely punished. This is one accusation sadly that does ruin lives

    IMHOpinion
    IMHOpinion
    11 years ago

    I love the way every molester and fraudster is auto named RABBI.

    If anyone’s looking to become a rabbi in a day, simply look for trouble.

    11 years ago

    They said that about Sandusky also that he was so nice and his friends said he would never do that to a child.

    TexasJew
    TexasJew
    11 years ago

    We live in a sick world. You never know who to trust.
    Hope it’s not true.

    Yiddl
    Yiddl
    11 years ago

    He was 19 in 2001 if he did it once it’s one to many, but does it make him a pedophile? Just asking not absolving.

    cool-3931
    cool-3931
    11 years ago

    What took 12 years for the victim to come forward? Seriously if this case had any merit would you not think the victim should have come forward more sooner. Also how do you prove guilt 12 years after he allegedly committed this crime? Something doesn’t add up.

    11 years ago

    I find it very difficult to believe. I have been close with him for many years.

    qazxc
    qazxc
    11 years ago

    Never say never. Ai apitropias le’arayos.

    Godol-Hador
    Godol-Hador
    11 years ago

    I don’t know this young man, I know of his fine family.
    Here are some thoughts:
    Anyone who molests a child should indeed be punished- but I cannot coNceive of any reason, even the so-called good ones raised here and other sites, of why is took 12 years to bring th accusation especially in light of the extreme heightened awareness of abuse these past years.
    So, something is definately not right. And therefore it is extremely wrong to release his name thereby forever ruining his name, even if the case will be dropped. I am crying for this unfortunate person and his family. It is plain wrong.
    Second, I have decided, and now it will be obsesively enforced not to let any of my sons become camp counselours or similar.
    Yes, there is abuse, however I Believe it has Been blown way out of proportion and all camps and schools wll now suffer.
    We have reaped what we planted. An accusation “out of the blue” ruIns lives. Its ridiculous.

    everymom
    everymom
    11 years ago

    Well said, # 21

    jack-l
    jack-l
    11 years ago

    Gadol hador… guess what you`re not.
    pls get educated…. not by your assumtions and logical deductions learn from /read what the professionals in this field are saying. their predictions are right on.
    Rachmana litzlon the abuse we are hearing is the tip of the iceberg. The victims are coming forth now because only now can some talk about it. some will take still longer. for some …. never.
    We are not immune to the evils of the world . We must show the vicitims rachmonis and compassion. One can`t be judgemental. We must also deal with the abuser but not as poorly as we have till now. Though many officials, rabbanim included meant well , it didn`t turn out that way. They too needed an education. and B.H. we now handle these issues very differently.

    ps. the abuser is usually the nicest guy in the world. in our world usually shomer torah and mitzvos. you never see it coming. ….i didn`t

    shredready
    shredready
    11 years ago

    For all those who say I know him or his family really means nothing not guilt or innocence.

    I will ask you was there a case that people ever said him of course he is a molestor

    SamEiger
    SamEiger
    11 years ago

    I know I’ll get a lot of flak for saying this but here goes.
    Even if he did this when he was 19 years old, as far as we know there have been no accusations since. So if a person picks himself up from the mistakes of his teenage years and goes on to become a healthy and productive member of society we are going to hound him down and destroy him and his family?!?
    What is the point of this? I don’t think what he did as a 19 year old means that he is a danger today so I don’t see how the usual rodef argument applies.
    True he has to apologize and try to make it up to the victim but does he need to lose his life after he worked to drag himself out?
    I shudder to think where this witch hunt will end. Are we going to start going after minors? 17 yrs old? 15 yrs old? maybe 10 yrs old?
    What if it were your child who went through that stage?

    Brooklynhocker
    Brooklynhocker
    11 years ago

    Isn’t 12 years beyond the statute of limitations? I think many people are bothered by the title “molester” because it conjures up images of Rebbaim and teachers taking advantage of young feable kids. This may have been two teenagers that acted out their homosexual feelings and now the “victim” can’t get beyond it even if Goodman has.

    EBJEW
    EBJEW
    11 years ago

    What ever the fate of Rabbi Aryeh, I will always think of him as the man who Bar Mitzvahed my son, came to my home for Chanukah and whose hospitality in his own home my family and I enjoyed. Knowing Rabbi Aryeh taught me that Rabbi’s are not just religious figures that you see up at the Torah for the holidays but are people. They can be warm and caring and funny just like regular people. Unfortunately people can be flawed. I don’t want to believe that this “friend of my families” is capable of such an horrible act but I guess that will be up to the courts to decide. What ever his fate, my heart goes out to him and his family.