NEW JERSEY
The Jewish Voice
After years of denying the allegations against him, a notorious Lakewood child molester has finally fessed up to his accused crimes.
Yeshiva teacher Yosef Kolko—- who is the nephew of notorious pedophile Rabbi Yehuda Kolko—- pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a young boy during summer camp six years ago.
When a religious council of Orthodox Jews refused to take legal action against the man, the victim’s family turned to the Office of the Ocean County Prosecutor for justice.
As a result of seeking prosecution outside the confines of the Orthodox world, the victim’s entire family was ostracized by residents of their NJ community. Likewise, several community members took it a step further hoping on board a “terror campaign” to bully the family into dropping charges against the teacher by distributed flyers throughout the town which proclaimed the boy’s father had made a “mockery” of the Tanakh by committing the “terrible deed” of using a secular jurisdiction.
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