NEW YORK
New York Daily News
By Reuven Blau / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes shot back Sunday at critics of his controversial practice of not naming ultra-Orthodox Jewish sex-abuse defendants, saying, “My policy is succeeding.”
Hynes came under fire at a Crown Heights town hall meeting for treating accused Orthodox Jewish sex offenders differently from other such suspects.
“If something like this happened in the Italian community, you would give out the names,” civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel told Hynes.
Joel Engelman, 26, a victims advocate, made Hynes bristle when he yelled, “Your policy is failing!”
“My policy is succeeding,” Hynes responded. “Anyone who expresses outrage is not being practical.”
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