CONNECTICUT
New Haven Independent
CHRISTOPHER PEAK | May 16, 2017
Hartford — During the three years when Eliyahu Mirlis claimed Rabbi Daniel Greer sexually molested him, why didn’t Mirlis try to stop it?
Why didn’t the teenaged student phone his parents in New Jersey and flee to another school in another state?
Why didn’t he fend off the 60-year old man, weakened by a hernia?
Why didn’t he admit the alleged abuse to the assistant dean, Aviad Hack, another one of Greer’s alleged victims, or to Ezi Greer, the rabbi’s son and Mirlis’s closest friend?
Why didn’t he report the case to the state’s child welfare agents, who were investigating the Yeshiva of New Haven?
“That’s probably a hard question to answer, but I want to ask you to try,” Antonio Ponvert, Mirlis’s attorney, said after his client took the witness stand on Monday afternoon here in U.S. District Court.
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