NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY SIMONE WEICHSELBAUM / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2013
Assemblyman Dov Hikind has quietly steered nearly $1 million in state cash to a little known orthodox Jewish group aiming to combat child abuse throughout Brooklyn’s black hat enclaves.
The controversial pol tapped Project Innocent Heart — a Far Rockaway based organization headed by Rabbi Moshe Bak — to teach Hasidim about keeping kids safe from pedophiles, kidnappers and other criminals, according to a source with knowledge of the deal.
It’s been four years since Hikind scored the $950,000 payout from the state’s Office of Family and Children’s Services.
The money was first requested to fund Shomrei Yeldainu — Hebrew for “Guardians of our Children” — which nonprofit Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty was going to run.
Hikind wouldn’t return calls explaining what happened to Shomrei or why Project Innocent Heart ended up with the dough.
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