NEW YORK
New York Post
By JENNIFER BAIN and JOSE MARTINEZ
A teenage boy faced off in court today with the rabbi he accused of molesting him when he was in first grade.
The 13-year-old boy testified that he was “scared” when Rabbi Joel Kolko glared at him and his dad on their way to synagogue – an encounter that now has the notorious Brooklyn rabbi on trial for allegedly violating an order of protection.
“When I crossed the street I turned around and saw him staring like this,” the boy said, as he crossed his arms. “Staring at me and my father. I said… ‘Why’s he looking at me?'”
Kolko escaped sex-offender status by pleading guilty in 2008 to misdemeanor child endangerment of the boy and a first-grade classmate at a Flatbush yeshiva. The boys had accused him of touching their private parts.
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