ST. LOUIS (MO)
Failed Messiah
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
David Kramer is due in federal court in St. Louis today for an extradition hearing prompted by child sexual abuse allegations made by former students at Chabad’s flagship school in school in St. Kilda, Australia, a Melbourne suburb.
Kramer allegedly sexually abused children in Chabad’s Yeshiva College. When Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, the head of Chabad in Australia, was confronted with allegations that Kramer was molesting children, he helped Kramer flee Australia and avoid arrest by Australian police.
Kramer spent a decade in Israel and then went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he molested more children. Kramer was arrested there in 2007 and charged with sexual misconduct and statutory sodomy when a non-Chabad Orthodox rabbi, Zev Smason, reported him to police after Kramer fondled a 12-year-old boy and masturbated in front of him. Kramer pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven years in prison. He was recently released.
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