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Rabbi Who Formerly Taught at Marlboro School Faces Child Sex Charges

By Alex N. Gecan
Asbury Park Press
May 3, 2017

http://www.app.com/story/news/crime/jersey-mayhem/2017/05/03/rabbi-menachem-a-chinn-shalom-torah-academy-east-windsor/101245318/

The Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said May 3 that 40-year-old Menachem A. Chinn sexually assaulted two minors between 2010 and 2012.

An East Windsor rabbi who formerly taught at a Marlboro religious school is facing charges of sexually assaulting and endangering two minors.

Menachem A. Chinn, 40, of East Windsor is facing two counts each of sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office and East Windsor Township Police Department announced Wednesday. All charges are based out of East Windsor.

Chinn formerly taught at Shalom Torah Academy in Marlboro, which maintains a tuition and donation office in Lakewood. Chinn also taught at the academy's East Windsor location before it closed, according to Mercer County officials.

East Windsor police first charged Chinn on April 20 for one count each of assault and endangerment after a joint investigation with the county prosecutor's Special Victim's Unit, according to an April 21 announcement.

"It is alleged that during one occasion in 2012, when the male victim was 12 years old and at Chinn's residence, Chinn touched the victim inappropriately," according to that announcement.

Thirteen days later, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri and East Windsor police Chief James A. Geary announced the second set of charges. "Onofri stated that following media reports of Chinn's arrest, a second victim reached out to law enforcement," according to that announcement.

"The victim, who is now an adult, stated that Chinn had inappropriate sexual contact with him at Chinn's residence numerous times between July 2010 and May 2011," according to the May 3 announcement.

Chinn has remained in custody ever since his first arrest on April 20, said Casey DeBlasio, as spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office.

The academy's website no longer lists Chinn as a faculty member, but an archived incarnation names him as a rabbi and sixth- and seventh-grade homeroom teacher and math enrichment facilitator.

A person who answered the phone at the academy said "we have no comment on that, thank you very much" and hung up.

Authorities are still investigating Chinn and asked anyone with information to call Mercer County Prosecutor's Detective Alicia Bergondo at 609-989-6568 or East Windsor police Detective Thomas Meyer at 609-448-5678.

 

 

 

 

 




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