Williamsburg, NY – An orthodox Jewish man was charged Tuesday with molesting a 12-year-old boy in a ritual bath [Mikvah] in Williamsburg.
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Prosecutors allege he molested the 12-year-old once a month between January and June 2009, according to court papers.
The man arrested dropped a bombshell to cops claiming that he was abused years ago by another Orthodox man who was sent last month to prison for preying on youngsters.
This is what happens when you deny the problem – it gets passed on and on.
Its time to clean up our community, how many more children need to suffer for the rest of their lives ?
No excuse for such act even though he too was molested.
When will this stop already? Crazy world!
Aho Aho.. Austin we got a problem!! if that’s the case somebody should be responsible!!!!
It’s the gift that keeps on giving, isn’t it? A molester was a victim too. How tragic. But it has to stop & arresting people is the only thing that will work. Good work to the parents who are determined to get another sick person out of our kids’ way. I hope you’re getting your child help.
Parents: don’t you get it? Send your kids to the Mikvah with an older relative or friend. Even though this boy was 12 it’s hard to escape on your own. Better safe than sorry.
Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg u r a saveor for klal yisrual and for all the rabonim who has a problem with him just stop molesting other children. Reb nuchem thank u so much and klal yisrual wishes u good luck in your work
if he did it, than he should go to jail!!
what are the details? at what time did this happen? its hard to imagine that this happened on a friday afternoon in Williamsburg, where I presume the mikvas are full of people.
did he take him there during the week, in the afternoon, when most mikvas are empty? if yes than shame on the shul that let’s people enter the mikva during the afternoon
Other than to be a korban for predatory pedophiles trolling mikves for their next victim, for what reason does a parent send a 12 year old to a mikve?
Most importantly is for the kinder to receive all the treatment and therapy necessary to insure him a healthy future. Such horror, such disgust. I encourage all to view other news sources so you know who to keep your children away from. Sad.
I don’t believe him that he was molested by the other guy. He is using a good excuse fro his defense when he goes to trial.
The only solution is to castrate these molesters like they do in China or put them on permanent hormone therapy so they won’t have the urge to attack children like they do in European courts. There is no other solution. Temporary prison sentencing is not enough because as soon as they come out, they continue to do the same.
PLEASE do not take this the wrong way. I have a very serious question and am looking for a real answer.
How does the system work in todays day? Do we believe every child just because they say something or is there a true investigation done when an accusation is made and only after that is an arrest made if need be? I wonder if society today is so concerned to the point that we take a childs word as truth, act upon it and then work out the details or do we do our due diligence first.
Again I ask the panel here to provide a serious answer. I am not implying anything I am just asking a question.
Thank you
Why are 12 year olds going to the Mikvah? the chassidim need to establish a new rule that only older boys need to go and anyone thats younger needs to be with his father.
It is not enough to send your little boys with an older brother! Fathers should take their own sons, and tell them if anyone touches them let them know immediately! Even if they think it is just an accident, Tatty needs to know! That is the way to catch them and to protect your children.
And the fathers should shout out “YOU, you touched my son!!!” Everyone should look at him and know who he is. There is no such thing as an accident. No adult male should go into mikveh when there is a child in it. There should be RULES.
I always objected to children in the mikveh! They should have separate hours if they are not married yet! Make it a law!
I’m not commenting on this story since I believe innocent till proven guilty and loshon hora and everything that goes with it. But #9 you are so naive. I would even say to an extreme. these people are professionals at what their doing they’ll find their way even when the father is their
Nuchem rosenberg is no help in such situations people were arrested before and after noting changed by this pig the only difference is that gives the chance for those who love to gossip to listen to him
#20 , good points.now they need to be instituted
Install security camera in the mikva.
children should not be allowed in a mikvah at all. they only make trouble and there is no reason in the world why a kid has to go to the mikvah. they should only start going from the bar mitzvah and onward thats chinnuch not when you take a 4 year old in mikvah
Why in the hell would a 12 year old boy be going to the mikvah in the first place?
I am a Chassid who lives in Wiiliamsburg, and I have to say that there are hardly 12 year odl’s going alone to the mikveh…. BUT … for those who send their kids alone they need to be charged as well….. AND…. regardless there is no reason in the world for a 12 year old to go to the Mikveh AT ALL
Another problem is that children are not supposed ot see father naked (remember story with Noach )
any area that has more than one person walkig around undressed is open prey to molesters.
matter of fact molesters molest people when they are dressed too.
it would be nice to know that someone can be hired to oversee teh areas where these problems are taking place. problem with that is, who is to say the watchperson isnt a molester as well
Here we go again. Another public incident that brings out the worst in people. Pro- and anti- NR. It involved a mikva – stop boys from going, or send them with their father only, or be mevatel mikva altogether. Report to authorities or never allow reporting since it is mesira. Is it lashon horoh, or is it a mitzvah because it has to’eles. Here comes Markey – pro or anti. Kol Tzedek – pro or anti. Dov Hikind – pro or anti. and the advocates to blast the Agudah, the gedolim, and others for not having resolved these problems 50 years ago.
I wish we could screen the comments and allow only those that have something constructive to offer. The problem is real. We have thus far failed to accomplish much at the community level. We should debate whether the publicizing of these stories helps or hurts the cause. We need a lot of help to succeed at finding a resolution. The name calling or deifying any of the askanim will help no one.
I was molested when I was 11, people in my kehilah went out found the guy brought him back to shul the rov beat him up and cut of his paios, in front of every one, you see that you know that you must never do that to children. thats how we should deal with this
Why can’t they just take a shower for shabbos?
The mikva I go to, there are not allowed any children under bar mitzva, and I don’t know of any bucher having a problem going to mikva because he didn’t go when he was a child.
Parents!!! Let your boys (under bar mitzva) take showers at home, there is no yidishkiet or chisdishkiet involved for a 12 year old to go to mikva “no tahara is requested for them.
And I personally think that cameras in mikvas that can be watched only if 3 people put in a password (i know a mikva that has it) should be installed in all mikvas
Under what possible interpretation of halacha would an older man and a 12 year old boy not yet even bar mitzvah be sitting in a mikvah together for 6 months last year. When I first read this I thought is was some sick joke but obviously not and some demented parent thought it was necessary for this little boy to be sitting in mikvah. For why????
For crying out loud, start CCTVing these bathouses of ill repute
I wonder sometims at the few people that are so holy that they need to go to the mikvah a few times a day (yes, a few time a day) and just sit there…’hanging out’…
I dont know about you. but for me its in an out…
why is it not possible to set up the mikva in such a way that there is only one person at a time?
Simple solution – make the mikva either private (like the women do) or make sure only 1 person in the mikva itself at a time & no one walk around without a towel on.
For someone who only later in life started going to the mikva on a regular basis (20), I found it difficult to comprehend all these guys I knew from shul walking around in just their birthday suits. I can imagine that if someone grew up with it, going to the mikve from a young age, it would be easy for them to go to the mikva alone and naively just trust any other men they see their.
Any parent who permits a child to go to a mikvah is responsible for the consequences . You are asking for trouble . I know !.
Rebbe nachman would immerse in the mikva since he was 6. of course your sons should go to the mikvah. we just need to teach our children that their are maleesters out there and NO ONE can touch you anywhere…Especiallyyyy under your belt and if someone tries too even if its your school Rebbe or teacher or freind or freinds parants and so on….you run away and tell me about it RIGHT away even if they tell you not to tell me or threaten you. i promise nothing will happen to you if you tell me it will be good ok and constatly ask your kids if theres anything they want to tell you in general. i cant imagine a 12 yr old not understanding this is wrong, i need to tell my parent. a parent needs to explain whats out there in detail…even though its hard to bc your child so pure and that its ok to tell them. some parents just hit there kids when they say anything “sexual” so they might be scared to tell there parents. or they dont know what sexual is. this is the galus HaShem PROTECT US!
And this is why I haven’t been to a mikva in over 20 Years !!!
This is just the tip of the Iceberg . There are many, many unreported episodes . Children are either embarrased or afraid to come forward .
Hey Yiddish Brothers , He is my first kozin, i think i know him a lot better then all of you commenting here , this man is not well, he is a pain in the neck , He is a sick person , nebech got married and has a child , ofcurse we need these people of our streets , Why are you all happy that he is going to jail , imagine you having a chiild that is sick and because of his sickness he is going to jail and i dont belive he will come out alive ,
Stop being happy with others tzures , he has a brain issue , he is brain damaged he needs mental help not jail , He was born like this , he was born mentaly ill , hashem created him with mental rpoblems , myself and pepole that know him dont think he should be punished for this , he need to go to a mental home ,
my prblem is why you all are so happy about him going to jail , you could wake up one day c”v mentely disabled as he is , its hashem that created him with this problem , it could happen to anyone .
ofcourse the rabbunim dont to anything , they like gefilthe fish and collored bekitshes , thats all they are here for , why is there no orginization for people with this problem , like hamaspik
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best not to go to mikvehs at all….thee is NO chiuv to go
Mamash Nisht Tzu Gloiben! How sick and evil a person can be. We must street proof our children of Kabdayhu Vichashdayhu no matter how they may appear on the outside.
Re ; to # 102. You, sound like a guy who is NOT hiding it .
just in time for Shavuos
“Shalosh peamim … yeiraeh kol zechurcha”
All mikvehs MUST have monitors during Friday hours like Satmer in KJ,and Willamsburgh…A perent who allows his child on his own is Mischyev Benafshoy….The same way u wouldnt allow a small child cross the street on hiw own the same way u must NOT allow them in the mikveh alone…Its a crazy world we live in and the molesters know where they can find a easy target…The smaller the mikveh the easier is the target….
one thing is for sure, the community dos not tolerate it any more, i think this is the Credit of reb n. rosenberg.
Let’s get it clear, yes there is problems that needs to be taken care, the that did things is NOT Nuchem Rosenberg, he likes to jump on things a say it was he, He jumps that he is the one that found the problem of Finkel meat, he He is the one that found all problems,
He is a supers slanderer, On Nirbater Rov who happens to have a beuitiful Kashrus, he slanders CRC, Gruber, He found the Coco problem (which clearly didn’t exists)
NUCHEM is a Menuval that has super super joy of those stuff, when ever some yid has a tzora (not related even to those garbidge) he just is not capeable to hide his joy, שם רשעים ירקב
The sooner we stop hiding those Jews who need help or who are criminal, the sooner we will prosper.
Nonsense! If not for Rabbi Nochem Rosenberg no one would talk about this subject, victims would not know how to tell their parents that they have been victimized, parents would not have the courage to press charges, and it wouldn’t have been reported here on VIN, all politics aside, and I don’t know Rabbi Rosenberg personally, but he is definitely the one who caused everyone to talk about this openly and make progress in this area, please give credit where credit is due. I don’t know if he does it the right way but he is the one who did something. Thank you Rabbi Rosenberg.
Thanks Rabbi Nuchom Roenberg!!!!!!!!!! Continue your holy work!!!!!!!