NEW YORK
The Journal News
Two search warrants were executed in the ultra-Orthodox village on Thursday.
A federal probe in the village of Kiryas Joel is focusing on child abuse allegations at a village school and how authorities responded to them, a law enforcement source told The Journal News on Friday.
FBI agents on Thursday executed search warrants at the United Talmudical Academy school buildings and at a trailer that houses the Department of Public Safety on the outskirts of the village. They spent about four hours in each location and left with boxes of documents and equipment.
The raids came a week after two videos were posted on the Internet showing a school principal in close physical contact with young male students.
The videos, purportedly taken several months ago, came from a ceiling camera in the office of the 67-year-old principal. The identity of those who hid the camera and leaked the videos has not been revealed publicly.
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