ISRAEL
The Jerusalem Post
BY JEREMY SHARON JULY 4, 2017
An initiative called Din Ve’Cheshbon, or “Settling the Score” in Hebrew, has been launched to encourage victims of sexual assault in the haredi community to come forward and demand compensation from sex offenders and persons who supported their attackers or helped keep their offenses quiet.
The project coordinator Nachman Rosenberg says it began with haredi businesspeople from abroad who have become increasingly outraged at the growing number of news reports regarding sexual abuse against women, children and youths in the community which are not appropriately dealt with.
In March, for example, the police apprehended almost two dozen suspected haredi sex offenders in Jerusalem and three haredi-majority cities, after having previously arrested the head of a so-called Modesty Guard committee in the haredi community who was found to be in the possession of numerous records of men who had committed sex offenses.
In the majority of cases, the head of the Modesty Guard would instruct the perpetrators to get some form of therapy within the haredi community but would not report their crimes to the police.
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