NEW YORK
New York Post
By Jeane Macintosh
October 9, 2013
So much for cleaning up its reputation as a haven for sexual predators.
Yeshiva University, dogged by allegations it covered up decades of sex abuse at its boys’ high school, has put a convicted child molester on its payroll.
Kiddie predator Akiva Roth, 42, is teaching at the school’s Yeshiva College unit in Washington Heights, despite pleading guilty in 1997 to four counts of lewdness against several male students.
A judge at the time blasted Roth for being unrepentant and for blaming his schoolboy victims for “enticing him” into the abusive behavior.
Roth, the son of New York Rabbi Joel Roth, started at the college at the beginning of the academic year as a full-time instructor, teaching four classes a week, according to the Jewish Daily Forward, which first reported the twisted staffing decision. Some high school students also attend the all-male college.
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