CALIFORNIA
KABC
Amy Powell
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (KABC) — A rabbi has been arrested and faces charges of child sexual abuse.
Rabbi Mendel Tevel was arrested Tuesday afternoon at the Beverly Hills youth center where he had been working. Authorities were acting on a warrant issued in New York charging the rabbi with criminal sexual acts.
“Mendel Tevel has been accused by many people of being a child molester. It was brought to the attention of Jewish Community Watch,” said Ilanit Gluckosky with Jewish Community Watch, an organization that focuses on child abuse prevention.
According to the organization, the charges against Tevel go back to the mid-1990s and as recently as 2004.
The watchdog group reported on four men who accused Tevel of molesting them when they were boys. Tevel was a youth worker in Brooklyn, New York City, at the time.
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