Ahron Shlomo Lyson Sentenced to 7 Years for Sexually Abusing Three Brothers
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In an interview with YNet, the mother of the boys said, “I thank the Creator and thank the court and the system that justice has been served and (the abuser) was punished. We are very moved and hope that this will give every other child the strength to report abuse and know that there is someone who protects them, believes them and hears them. Thank you to the judge who believed the children, and I hope that tonight they will be able to sleep better than they have for the past few years.”
In the three years since the indictment was filed, the family members were humiliated, ostracized and boycotted by their community. Rabbis choose to protect the teacher at the expense of the children with some even accompanying him to court. But the family’s determination, and the determination of others like them have led to the fact that it is slowly becoming clear in the haredi community that it is impossible to continue silencing the victims and protecting the abusers.
Shana Aaronson and JCW's amazing team in Israel has been in close contact with the survivors and their parents for two years now.
“The punishment he received will never bring back to my children the years of childhood that they lost and the social life that was cut off,” added the mother. “I stand behind my decision to report (the abuse) and embark on this justice crusade, even though it was not easy, I participated in 59 hearings throughout the trial just to give my children the strength to know that Mother is always behind them.”
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Straight from midget junior's mouth.
ReplyDeleteDid you see Marvin Hier's kid defending the Tendler-Weinberg menuvolim molesting at Kerem & YULA? He arrogantly takes a dig at the oylam Hatorah being 2nd fiddle to Daddy Marvin schools while he's at it. I never knew that sons of dual moral-physical midgets can feel so high & mighty.
You were covering up on site at Kerem too, Avi L. Shafran.
And who is this putz Guidry? Was he paid and/or threatened to recant?
http://jewishjournal.com/news/los_angeles/community/7628/
“What bothers people most about Rabbi Weinberg is that their Torah is garden variety compared to his. He's a brilliant thinker. He won't accept the usual approaches to Torah,” said Rabbi Ari Hier, director of Jewish Studies at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who attended Kerem for 7 years.
“As soon as you're outside the box, immediately the Orthodox mediocrity has a problem with you,” said Hier, son of Wiesenthal dean Rabbi Marvin Hier.
Kerem, which existed for 7 years, employed well-known rabbis in LA, including Rabbi Shalom Tendler, now rosh yeshiva at YULA; Rabbi Aron Tendler of Shaarei Tzedek Cong; Rabbi Daniel Lapin, formerly of Pacific Jewish Center in Venice & Rabbi Eliezer Eidlitz, director of development at Emek Hebrew Academy.
It's Eidlitz whom the Commentator quoted as supplying YU with ammunition to attack Weinberg & DEC. Eidlitz refused to comment for The Jewish Journal.
In 1983, after Weinberg moved to Israel & before the school closed, major backers of Kerem & faculty were vying for control of the institution, Weinberg said. Amid that atmosphere, rumors emerged that Weinberg had sexually abused students. No charges were brought.
Rabbi Ari Guidry, a student at Kerem for 7 years, who taught at day schools in LA & now produces Torah CDs, said he was the source of some rumors. But says now he misrepresented "appropriate" hugs from Weinberg to impress wealthy & powerful backers who didn't like Weinberg.
“There was never anything remotely sexually suggestive,” Guidry said of his relationship with Weinberg.
Part 2
ReplyDeleteBut Blau of YU said there are more witnesses who are not speaking publicly about what happened at Kerem.
Also in question is how allegations were handled. Blau said that there's a letter signed by Weinberg & Rabbi Elya Svei, a leading rabbi from Philadelphia, stating Weinberg would not be involved in education.
“That's absolutely categorically insane,” Weinberg said. “I'd love for somebody to produce this document.”
One rabbi familiar with the situation said the matter at Kerem was dealt with at a rabbinic assembly involving some of the most elite rabbis in the US, including the late Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg, Weinberg’s father, rosh yeshiva of Ner Israel Baltimore. Because of Weinberg’s lineage — he's grandson of the highly respected late Rabbi Ruderman — Weinberg was quietly confined to a life without direct influence over students so that scandal would not touch this respected family.
“Never happened. It's absolutely, categorically, totally untrue,” Weinberg said.
Weinberg said all he's guilty of is overconfidence of a 29-year-old in charge & loving his students. Kerem took in many students from broken homes, he said.
“I believe when kids are shown for the first time in their lives, support, concern & love, it makes all the difference,” he said. “When subsequently accusations were made & the kids were told that nobody loved you, cared about you & any sign of comfort was sexual — that's devastating to them,” Weinberg said.
Weinberg said his supporters are in negotiations with YU, but if the situation's not resolved he'll "take legal action".
“If I'd spent the years I spent being productive getting involved in such nonsense, I'd not have given 1000s of classes or published books. I'd become a bitter, small-minded person who worries about what people think & their lashon hara. But I've been put in a position that if they continue, it has to be stopped.”
Blau said YU stands by its actions & that more information will soon emerge. Meanwhile, Blau said, the students must be protected.
“There is suspicion & some level of risk & that's enough to react,” he said.
What does UOJ think about Yudi Kolko's victim Tsatskis being a convicted molester himself (but not of any children)?
ReplyDeletePersonally, I feel horrible that Kolko made his life a Hell, but I still don't think he has a right to inflict sexual abuse on anyone else.
Is this an unclear case of a girlfriend or wife getting upset & making allegations or was this an unprovoked criminal act on Sruli's part?
I am not familiar with the allegations.
ReplyDeleteMilitary courts can have widely different legal definitions. It is a military crime for instance to accept a consentual proposition from a married person. But that crime is adultery. The question is if something benign can be defined by the military as indecent (sexual) assault.
ReplyDeletehttp://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/other-courts/2006/2006-26301.html
Even under non-military NY State law, someone who violently confines a child without touching their private parts is legally called a sex offender.
http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Florida/Unsorted-FL/Israel-Tsatskis.20394632.html
SEX OFFENSE, US MILITARY (INDECENT ASSAULT)
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Lopin heard from a Gannett reporter who read or listened to all the proceedings in Bodenheimer's criminal trial that Bodenheimer was nailed for sex abuse regardless because the violent putz was letting loose with slaps & one hit the kid's bumbum. Under the law, it doesn't matter if Bodenheimer was trying to pleasure himself or just not watching where his hands went. No one thinks that Bodenheimer is a baal tayva in that way but the State doesn't care. When the Agudah Fressers were hopping mad at Bodenheimer for pleading guilty he had apparently been too ashamed to tell them all the details. He knew that he had no choice but to plead guilty. And he didn't really need to farentfer to the Fressers that R' Aron Leib had overruled them. Who knows if someone even saw a red hand print afterward that meant he was cooked.
ReplyDeleteI don't know vhy no vone listening to me. I trrrying to say da gantze tzeit dat dese shvantz kids accusing Yidi, farrrkerrrt, dey prrrobably trrrying to molest HIM and da poorrr yingerrrman just trrrying to defend himself frrrom dem.
ReplyDeletehttp://armymilitarypolice.tpub.com/mp1019c/Sodomy-Article-125-Ucmj-27.htm
ReplyDeleteIndecent Assault (Article 134, UCMJ, para 63). The offense of indecent assault consists of three basic elements:
1. That the accused assaulted a certain person not the spouse of the accused in a certain manner;
2. That the acts were done with the intent of gratifying the lust or sexual desires of the accused; and
3. That, under the circumstances, the conduct of the accused was to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces or was of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces. Indecent assault is a nonconsensual offense.
QUESTION: DOES THE INITIAL ASSAULT ITSELF NEED TO BE INDECENT?
ANSWER: NO. THE REQUISITE ASSAULT OR BATTERY DOES NOT NEED TO BE INHERENTLY INDECENT, LEWD, OR LASCIVIOUS (FOR EXAMPLE, CHOKING A VICTIM AND PUSHING HER ONTO A BED), BUT IT MAY BE RENDERED SO BY ACCOMPANYING WORDS AND CIRCUMSTANCES (THREATS TO KILL THE VICTIM UNLESS SHE SUBMITTED TO ACCUSED'S SEXUAL ADVANCES AND ACCUSED'S ATTEMPT TO FORCEFULLY REMOVE VICTIM'S PANTS). UNITED STATES V. WILSON, 13 MJ 247 (CMA 1982).
QUESTION: WHAT IS INDECENCY?
ANSWER: THE TERM "INDECENT" SIGNIFIES THAT FORM OF IMMORALITY RELATING TO SEXUAL IMPURITY WHICH IS NOT ONLY GROSSLY VULGAR, OBSCENE, AND REPUGNANT TO COMMON PROPRIETY BUT TENDS TO EXCITE LUST AND DEPRAVE THE MORALS WITH RESPECT TO SEXUAL RELATIONS. PART IV, MCM 1984, PARA 90(c)