NEW JERSEY
NJ.com
By Alex Napoliello/NJ.com
on October 11, 2013
Yeshiva University is facing scrutiny for hiring a teacher convicted of child molestation at a West Orange private school.
Akiva Roth, 42, started at the school’s Yeshiva college unit in Washington Heights at the beginning of the academic year, according to a report from The New York Post.
In 1996, Roth was arrested for exposing and touching himself to 11 – and 12-year-old boys at Solomon Schecter, the report said. He pleaded guilty to four counts of lewdness against several male students, and received 10 years probation as a result.
At the time, Roth blamed the children he abused for “enticing him into this behavior,” adding he “has very little empathy for his victims,” according to the report.
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