NEW JERSEY
New Jersey Jewish News
by Debra Rubin
NJJN Bureau Chief
May 1, 2017
A teacher at Shalom Torah Academy in Morganville and director of the Twin Rivers chapter of the National Council of Synagogue Youth (NCSY) is being held in the Mercer County Correctional Center for the alleged sexual assault of a 12-year-old boy.
According to a press release from acting Mercer County Prosecutor Doris M. Galuchie and East Windsor Township Police Chief James A. Geary, police were recently made aware that Chinn allegedly touched the victim inappropriately on one occasion. A report on NJ.com noted that the prosecutor’s office did not elaborate on why the victim was at the rabbi’s home; another on NJ1015.com wrote that it was unclear if the boy was a student at Shalom Torah. The police contacted the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and the agencies conducted a joint investigation. Prosecutor’s office spokesperson Casey DeBlasio told NJJN that a detention hearing was held April 26 in Mercer County Superior Court where a judge ordered Chinn held.
NCSY, the youth movement affiliated with the Orthodox Union, immediately placed Chinn on leave pending the results of the investigation. An NCSY New Jersey website that had listed him as “Twin Rivers Director” was taken down some days later. In a statement released shortly thereafter, NCSY wrote that it was “shocked” to learn of the arrest.
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