NEW YORK
Jewish Daily Forward
By Anne Cohen
Published August 26, 2013.
Yeshiva University President Richard Joel said the school feels deep regret and shame at the findings of an investigation into allegation of sex abuse — but a lawyer for alleged victims dismissed the report as a “gross disappointment.”
The investigation commissioned by the university following reports by the Forward of sexual abuse by two faculty members at Y.U.’s high school for boys in the 1970s and ‘80s confirmed that “multiple incidents of varying types of sexual and physical abuse took place” at the school.
It also said the abuse extended beyond the high school for boys, to other divisions of the university, but gave no details.
The probe, carried out by New York-based law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, also found that individuals in positions of authority perpetrated the incidents, which continued even after administration members had been made aware of the problem.
“I express my deepest and most heartfelt remorse, and truly hope that our recognition of these issues provides some level of comfort and closure to the victims,” Joel wrote. “Although we cannot change the past, we remain committed to making confidential counseling services available to those individual victims in the hope they can achieve a more peaceful future.”
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