NEW JERSEY
Asbury Park Press
Written by
Kathleen Hopkins
@KHopkinsAPP
TOMS RIVER — Opening arguments just concluded in the much-anticipated trial of a Yeshiva teacher from Lakewood accused of sexually abusing a boy he met at a summer camp where he worked as a counselor.
Yosef Kolko, 39, of Geffen Drive, is on trial before state Superior Court Judge Francis R. Hodgson in Toms River.
The trial is expected to lift the shroud of secrecy surrounding rabbinical councils to which allegations of sexual abuse within the Orthodox community had traditionally been brought.
Kolko is accused of sexually abusing a boy he met while working as a counselor at Yachad, a summer camp at the Yeshiva Bais Hatorah School on Swarthmore Avenue in Lakewood. The boy has accused Kolko of molesting him between September of 2007 and February of 2009, when he was between 11 and 12 years old.
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