NEW JERSEY
USA Today
Kathleen Hopkins, Asbury Park (N.J.)
TOMS RIVER, N.J. — Yosef Kolko was a popular counselor who helped an unpopular young boy fit at summer camp in 2007, a jury of nine men and seven women heard Wednesday.
Kolko recruited the boy, who was teased by his peers, to sing in the choir at the camp run by Yeshiva Bais Hatorah School in Lakewood, N.J., and take roles in camp plays, Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Laura Pierro said during opening arguments of Kolko’s sexual assault trial before Superior Court Judge Francis R. Hodgson.
The activity was great for the shy boy who was wildly into music but usually kept to himself and was shunned by kids his own age, she said.
“That elation would soon be replaced by a profound sense of discomfort,” Pierro said.
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