UNITED KINGDOM
The JC
A respected Jewish teacher skipped bail and fled to Israel using a false passport after being charged with sexual offences against two teenage girls, a court heard on Tuesday.
Father-of-10 Todros Grynhaus, 50, denies five counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault.
On the first day of a retrial at Manchester Crown Court, the jury were told that Mr Grynhaus, a member of the Charedi community in Salford and the son of a rabbi, had admitted molesting a girl of 14 in a hotel jacuzzi.
The admission was made to his cousin, a rabbi in the strictly Orthodox community in Gateshead, following a meeting where Mr Grynhaus was confronted with the sexual abuse allegations.
The court heard that Mr Grynhaus told his cousin that he had abused two girls, admitting that “demons were going through him at the time”. But, he said, it was now behind him, with the offences alleged to have taken place around five years earlier.
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