FRANCE
Failed Messiah
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
A 55-year-old Chabad rabbi, Binyamin M., was indicted in Paris yesterday for “non-reporting of sexual abuse of minors under the age of 15-year-old,” a French newspaper, The Parisien, and a French radio station, RTL, reported this morning.
Media reports say the rabbi is a principal at Chabad’s Bais Chana school in Paris, and that he also teaches math there.
But the victims appear to be boys and the rabbi appears to be the principal of Chabad’s boy’s school located at 18 Passage des S. Simoniens – Rabbi Binyomin Mergui – and a Paris source familiar with Mergui and the school confirms that Mergui is, indeed, “Rabbi Binyamin M.”
Mergui was told by parents over the summer that their children were allegedly molested by a trusted school supervisor. A school supervisor holds a position similar to a teacher’s aide in the US. He watches the children during recess, accompanies them on field trips, and makes sure all the children are where they are supposed to be at any given time.
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