CHILD SEX ABUSER SUES GROUP FOR WARNING NEW YORK JEWS HE’D MOVED IN

NEW YORK (NY)
The Jerusalem Post

January 30, 2018

By Tamara Zieve

American businessman Daniel Sunray completed a six-year sentence for sexual abuse of six children between 1998 and 1999.

A US-based Jewish advocacy group working to combat child sex abuse within the Orthodox community is in a legal battle with a convicted pedophile about whom the group warned the local community.

In June 2016, the Jewish Community Watch, known for its “wall of shame,” shared information about the release of American businessman Daniel Sunray from an Israeli prison, where he had completed a six-year sentence for sexual abuse of six children between 1998 and 1999.

In April 2017, the group alerted the Jewish community in New York City that Sunray had moved there.

“We shared this information to warn the community about a man who poses a potentially serious risk to children,” the group said in a press release sent to The Jerusalem Post this week.

A few months ago, the group received a notice summoning its leaders to appear in front of Rabbi Yisroel Arye Knopfler’s Badatz Beit Din (rabbinical court) of Lakewood, New Jersey. According to the note, Sunray was suing Jewish Community Watch for Lashon Hara (derogatory or harmful speech).

“We are being sued for warning the community that a convicted sex offender, with a history of grooming children in shuls and offering children rides, had anonymously moved into their area,” said Meyer Seewald, founder and director of Jewish Community Watch.

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