UNITED KINGDOM
International Business Times
By Lewis Dean
July 10, 2015
Prominent Orthodox Jew Todros Grynhaus has been jailed for sexually abusing girls as young as seven despite pleading that he lived his life by strict Jewish rules.
Grynhaus, 50, from Salford, was found guilty of four counts of indecent assault of a girl under the age of 16, two counts of indecent assault of a girl under the age of 14 and sexual assault following a trial at Manchester Crown Court.
He was today (Friday, 10 July) sentenced to 13 years and two months and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.
The son of influential London rabbi and Beth Din judge Dayan Dovid Grynhaus, Todros Grynhaus had dismissed the accusations as “pure fiction” and part of a “revenge plot”.
But he was found guilty of sexually abusing a girl between 1996 and 2004 from when she was seven to the age of 15 in the Salford area. He was also guilty of sexually abusing another 15-year-old girl in the Salford area in 2004.
Flight to Jerusalem
Police launched an enquiry in November 2012 after information was disclosed to them regarding alleged crimes. Three months later, Grynhaus fled to Jerusalem using a false passport but was deported in September 2014 and arrested.
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