NEW JERSEY
The Jewish Voice
WEDNESDAY, 08 MAY 2013 11:03 BY NOA ZIVYON
After years of countless threats against a New Jersey boy and his family, at long last the trial of his accused molester Rabbi Yosef Kolko is set to being this week.
Yeshiva teacher Yosef Kolko— who is the nephew of notorious pedophile Rabbi Yehuda Kolko— will face a jury this week for accusations of sexually abusing the young boy during summer camp six years ago, according to court documents.
When a religious council of Orthodox Jews refused to take legal action against the man, his family turned to the Office of the Ocean County Prosecutor to seek justice.
As a result of seeking prosecution outside the confines of the Orthodox world, the victim’s entire family was ostracized by residents of their local community in Lakewood, New Jersey. Likewise, several community members took it a step further hoping on board a “terror campaign” to bully the family into dropping charges against the teacher by distributed flyers throughout the town which proclaimed the boy’s father had made a “mockery” of the Tanakh by committing the “terrible deed” of using a secular jurisdiction.
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