Yosef Kolko, a counselor at a summer camp at a yeshiva in Lakewood charged...
Secrecy on trial in Kolko caseThere should be a medal for the Lakewood family that is seeking justice for their son in the courts, despite being ostracized by some in the Orthodox Jewish community to...
View Article"I have clients in their 80s who have been carrying abuse around for 75 years."
Boston clergy abuse lawyer calls for raising age limit on lawsuits against child molestersBOSTON — An attorney who helped lead an $85 million child sexual abuse settlement against the Roman Catholic...
View ArticleProsecutor describes abuse at Lakewood yeshiva teacher Yosef Kolko's...
TOMS RIVER — Yosef Kolko was a popular camp counselor who helped an unpopular young boy fit in during the summer after the fifth grade, in 2007, a jury of nine men and seven women heard this...
View ArticleTooting 2 Horns - And A Challenge To Others!
There are only 2 Blogs that have made a darn of a difference to your tiny world and world view. All the rest are just a bunch of rehashed nonsense from other media outlets, reworded, pollyanish, and...
View ArticleDo everything to protect your family against child molesters!
By Susan H. Oliva \ Guest columnistIf you have a radio, television or Internet access, I guarantee you have heard the about the recent Cleveland child abduction case that involves three young women. As...
View ArticleYosef Kolko Pleads Guilty In Plea-Deal!
1:16 PM ESTKolko agrees to a 10 year sentence according to multiple reliable sources!***UPDATED & CONFIRMED:Former NJ yeshiva teacher, camp counselor pleads guilty to sexually assaulting boy, is...
View ArticleCould Be Titled - "I Was Groped By A Rabbi"!
I Was Groped on the SubwayI was late as usual, weaving through the 72nd Street subway station, rushing down the stairs to catch a departing train, and managed to squeeze into one of the packed cars...
View ArticleSeries: Education is key to prevention of child sex abuse
This is the third in a four-part series on child sexual abuse. On Tuesday, a victim tells her story in the Aiken Standard.Nelson Mandela, who was South Africa's first black president, once described...
View ArticleSex Offender Village - Build One In Jewish New York
WATCH VIDEO: http://nyti.ms/10kRIADFor this Op-Doc video, we visited a small community in Florida known as “Miracle Village,” where more than 100 registered sex offenders have settled since 2009....
View ArticlePolice Reopen Case About Death Of 15 Year Old Chaim Weiss!
Police are reopening a cold case regarding the death of a 15-year-old rabbinical student from Staten Island. Chaim Weiss was found dead by a dormitory supervisor at the Mesivta of Long Island, an...
View ArticleJewish Rabbis Fail at Stopping Child Abuse!
Good people cannot accept the evil and sick deeds that are done by some in our community.On Sunday we published an article by Rabbi William Handler, warning against automatically turning over cases of...
View ArticleWorse than blaming victims!
By Dr. Michael SalamonZelig (not his real name), a man in his 20′s, arrived to his therapy appointment with me yesterday with tears streaming down his cheeks. He was clearly in distress. At the age of...
View ArticlePolice overwhelmed by tsunami of child sex abuse images!
The latest figures from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) make depressing reading. The volume of child abuse images being reported and detected on the internet continues to increase and not in small...
View ArticleChina child sex abuse: Sleep with me, not kids say outraged citizens!
THE TENDLERS GO TO CHINA:Suddenly all kinds of people in China are offering to sleep with the headmaster. The unusual outpouring is in response to a recent spate of sex abuse cases, including that of a...
View ArticleLove No Matter What - The "Different" Child!
What is it like to raise a child who's different from you in some fundamental way? In this quietly moving talk, writer Andrew Solomon shares what he learned from talking to dozens of parents -- asking...
View ArticleBrain Changes from Child Abuse Tied to Adult Mental Illness, Sexual Problems
Different types of childhood abuse can increase the risk of mental illness as well as sexual dysfunction, experts say, but the biological mechanism by which this occurs has been unknown.New research...
View ArticleChild sexual abuse advocacy group launches in Sydney
Tzedek has announced its inaugural NSW event, an information session on ‘Child Sexual Abuse in the Jewish Community’ The event will be chaired by Amelia Frid, an experienced psychologist and Tzedek...
View ArticleResponding to Abuse: Should We Ask Gedolim?
The welfare of the child requires that every allegation be investigated.By: Rabbi Yosef Blau As the scandals and the chillul Hashem increase, Rabbi William Handler, in a recent op-ed article on...
View ArticleThe Tendlers Go To China - Part Deuce!
American teacher held in Shanghai over allegations of child sex abuseSuspect said to have been a friend of former instructor at same school who was extradited to the US on similar charges, school...
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