NEW YORK
Daily Mail (UK)
Names of 46 convicted child sex offenders who terrorized the Orthodox Jewish community from within are released by Brooklyn DA
22 July 2013
The Brooklyn District Attorney has convicted 45 men and a woman in the four years since it launched its clampdown on sex abuse within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, it was revealed today.
DA Charles Hynes, who is running for re-election in the New York district, released their identities in an apparent U-turn on his previous policy of not naming perverts for fear victims might suffer intimidation or that others may be deterred from coming forward.
The most high-profile case saw religious counsellor Nechemya Weberman, 54, sentenced to 103-years in prison for molesting a girl, beginning when she was 12-years old.
‘We feel now it’s good for the community to know those who have been convicted,’ Hynes’ spokesman told the New York Post.
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