2/4/09
A team of New York prosecutors, counselors and religious leaders will work to combat sexual abuse in Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. The centerpiece of the outreach program, which was announced Wednesday by District Attorney Charles Hynes and leaders from community-based organizations that serve Jewish communities, is a hot line abuse victims can call and speak to a culturally sensitive social worker. The establishment of the team, which will focus on child sex abuse, comes partly in response to a discussion on State Assemblyman Dov Hikind’s radio show in the summer of 2008. The show prompted dozens of listeners to come forward with stories of children being molested.
See: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1075535.html
Tags: Children, Jewish, Sexual Abuse, USA