NEW YORK
JTA
NEW YORK (JTA) — Brooklyn’s district attorney has inflated the results of a program for combating child sexual abuse in the haredi Orthodox community, a New York Times investigation concluded.
Whereas the office of Brooklyn’s district attorney, Charles Hynes, has claimed that its Kol Tzedek program has led to 95 arrests, the Times reported Friday that its investigation suggests that these claims “appear to be inflated.”
The Kol Tzedek program was launched in 2009 by the district attorney’s office in order to combat sexual abuse in Brooklyn’s large haredi community and encourage reporting of such crimes. The office has faced criticism over its refusal to publicly identify abusers prosecuted as a result of Kol Tzedek.
The Times reported that using public records it was able to identify the names of suspects and other details related to 47 of the 95 cases.
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