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Lawsuit Alleges Yeshiva University Hired Teacher with History of Lewd Behavior

By Ben Chapman and Rachel Monahan
New York Daily News
October 9, 2013

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/yeshiva-hired-teacher-lewd-behavior-history-lawsuit-article-1.1480196

Manhattan's Yeshiva University is facing a sex-abuse lawsuit filed by former students. It has been reported that the university hired a Hebrew teacher who had a record for lewd behavior.

Already facing a sex-abuse lawsuit filed by former students, Yeshiva University hired a Hebrew teacher who has a record for lewd behavior, it was reported Tuesday.

Akiva Roth, then a teacher at a Jewish day school in West Orange, N.J., was convicted for exposing himself to bar mitzvah boys in 1997, the Forward reported. He pleaded guilty to four counts of lewdness and was sentenced to 10 years’ probation, the Forward found.

Last fall, the university became engulfed in a sex scandal after former students at the university’s High School for Boys came forward to describe the abuse they’d suffered at the hands of their former rabbis during the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.

Roth did not return a call for comment.




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