UNITED KINGDOM
AFP
LONDON — A rabbi from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in London has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and perverting the course of justice, police and media reports said Thursday.
Police said a 54-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday, and he was named by the BBC and the online Times of Israel newspaper as Rabbi Chaim Halpern, who leads a synagogue in Golders Green in north London.
Halpern has been accused in recent months of sexually abusing women in marriage counselling sessions, which he denies, according to The Jewish Chronicle newspaper.
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