MARYLAND/OHIO
The Baltimore Sun
By Jessica Anderson
The Baltimore Sun
A rabbi from Ohio was arrested and faces charges of sexually abusing a girl in Baltimore County, police said.
Frederick Martin Karp, 50, of Beachwood, Ohio, was taken into custody at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, where he is awaiting extradition proceedings, according to a police department news release.
Police said that on Dec. 31, it received information that a juvenile female living in Baltimore County had been sexually abused over a period of time by the suspect. When detectives went to Cleveland last week to interview Karp, he was not there, police said. He was later stopped by police at JFK Airport.
Karp is president of the Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains, and served as spiritual living director at a senior living in Beachwood, according the Cleveland Jewish News.
Gail Herman, an administrative assistant with the Association of Jewish Chaplains, said Thursday that the organization is aware of the charges but declined to comment further, including on Karp’s status with the association.
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