NEW YORK
New York Post
By JOSE MARTINEZ
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes (left) blamed witness intimidation in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community — which he compared to the kind of threats carried out by the Mafia — for his unwillingness to name accused sexual predators.
Lashing out against those who have accused him of kowtowing to political pressure by refusing to identify the nearly 100 Orthodox Jews charged with sex crimes in Brooklyn over the last three years, Hynes said, “I haven’t seen this kind of intimidation in organized-crime cases or police-corruption cases.”
Identifying the accused, Hynes said, would put their accusers in jeopardy of being outed by segments of the Orthodox community.
“No one gives a damn about victims,” he fumed. “All they care about is protecting the abusers.”
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