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</div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Children sexually abused in New York City</div> <p><b>Child sexual abuse in New York City religious institutions</b> has presaged or echoed that which has occurred and emerged elsewhere in the United States and Europe. The <a href="/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse" title="Child sexual abuse">child sexual abuse</a> cases documented here, so far, reach back to the 1970s but have mostly come to light since 1990. </p><p>This is a listing, and account, of notable cases; it is not necessarily a complete listing for <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>: </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Two_2011_basketball-program_cases">Two 2011 basketball-program cases</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Child_sexual_abuse_in_New_York_City_religious_institutions&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Two 2011 basketball-program cases"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Two cases in 2011 – those of <a href="#Bob_Oliva">Bob Oliva</a> and <a href="#Ernie_Lorch">Ernie Lorch</a> – have both centered in highly ranked NYC youth <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a> programs sponsored by churches of different <a href="/wiki/Religious_denomination" title="Religious denomination">denominations</a>. Both cases have also moved to a criminal stage due to actions which have been alleged to, or admitted to, have happened in <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>. As with many abuse cases, the fairly recent accusations addressed events which happened many years ago. However, Massachusetts law froze the statute of limitations when the victims left that state and allowed the cases, thence, to be brought many years later. In the open case – Lorch's – the statute of limitations provision is being challenged in court. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bob_Oliva">Bob Oliva</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Child_sexual_abuse_in_New_York_City_religious_institutions&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Bob Oliva"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In early 2011, long-time basketball coach at <a href="/wiki/Christ_the_King_Regional_High_School" title="Christ the King Regional High School">Christ the King Regional High School</a> Bob Oliva was accused of two cases of child sexual abuse.<sup id="cite_ref-NYm1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYm1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He pleaded guilty to one of the charges, brought in Massachusetts on behalf of a former student. Under the conditions of Oliva's <a href="/wiki/Plea_bargain" title="Plea bargain">plea bargain</a>, he was permanently banned from coaching, and sentenced to five years' probation, during which he was mandated to wear a monitoring device to track his movements.<sup id="cite_ref-NYm1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYm1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Oliva molested the victim in the Massachusetts case, a family friend, during a trip to Massachusetts in 1976, when the boy was 14. A news report a year after the conviction said that the victim in the case had been "deeply moved by the number of people who offered him support when Oliva and Christ the King officials were dismissing him as a shakedown artist. 'I realized I have real friends'", he said. "Suffolk Superior Court Judge Carol Ball hugged [him] and told him it was one of the greatest victim statement's she's ever heard," the report added.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a related action, the victim in the Massachusetts case has a civil action for $20 million against Oliva. In February 2012, the Queens judge refused Oliva's motion to dismiss the case, so trial was expected later in the year.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ernie_Lorch">Ernie Lorch</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Child_sexual_abuse_in_New_York_City_religious_institutions&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Ernie Lorch"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ernie Lorch, a <a href="/wiki/Middlebury_College" title="Middlebury College">Middlebury College</a> basketball player, was from 1961 the founding coach of the Riverside Hawks youth basketball team sponsored by the <a href="/wiki/The_Riverside_Church_in_the_City_of_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="The Riverside Church in the City of New York">Riverside Church</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SI_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SI-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The church is <a href="/wiki/Interdenominational" class="mw-redirect" title="Interdenominational">interdenominational</a> (<a href="/wiki/American_Baptist_Churches_USA" title="American Baptist Churches USA">American Baptist</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_Church_of_Christ" title="United Church of Christ">United Church of Christ</a>) and located on the <a href="/wiki/Upper_West_Side" title="Upper West Side">Upper West Side</a>. Lorch resigned after charges of child sexual abuse were leveled and <a href="/wiki/New_York_County_District_Attorney" title="New York County District Attorney">District Attorney</a> <a href="/wiki/Robert_M._Morgenthau" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert M. Morgenthau">Robert M. Morgenthau</a> began investigating in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-NYDN1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYDN1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under the "frozen <a href="/wiki/Statute_of_limitations" title="Statute of limitations">statute of limitations</a>" provision, Lorch was arrested by a fugitive task force in 2010 at a convalescent home in <a href="/wiki/Ardsley,_New_York" title="Ardsley, New York">Ardsley, New York</a>, said U.S. Marshal Daniel Spellacy in <a href="/wiki/Springfield,_Massachusetts" title="Springfield, Massachusetts">Springfield, Massachusetts</a>. Lorch was "accused of sexually abusing the then-17-year-old victim when his Riverside Hawks team traveled from Manhattan to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_in_Amherst" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Massachusetts in Amherst">University of Massachusetts in Amherst</a> for a tournament between March 1977 and April 1978. Lorch also tried to rape the player, the indictment said."<sup id="cite_ref-ESPN1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ESPN1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of March, 2011 Lorch's attorney was asserting his client suffered from <a href="/wiki/Dementia" title="Dementia">dementia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Diabetes" title="Diabetes">diabetes</a> and required a wheelchair; and the lawyer was effecting other efforts to prevent extradition, including <i><a href="/wiki/Habeas_corpus" title="Habeas corpus">habeas corpus</a></i> and a challenge to the "frozen statute of limitations" provision.<sup id="cite_ref-NYDN2_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYDN2-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several New York men told the <i>Daily News</i> after the 2010 arrest "that they had been paid into the millions of dollars to remain silent about alleged abuse".<sup id="cite_ref-NYSS01_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYSS01-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lorch successfully resisted extradition in November 2011,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but died in May 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-NYSS01_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYSS01-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Satmar_Hasidic_and_Haredi_communities">Satmar Hasidic and Haredi communities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Child_sexual_abuse_in_New_York_City_religious_institutions&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Satmar Hasidic and Haredi communities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sexual_abuse_cases_in_Brooklyn%27s_Haredi_community" title="Sexual abuse cases in Brooklyn's Haredi community">Sexual abuse cases in Brooklyn's Haredi community</a></div> <p>Brooklyn is home to the largest Haredi community outside <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>, and Haredim make up about a quarter million of New York City's population, and most of them live in Brooklyn.<sup id="cite_ref-times_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to scholars, the rate of sex abuse within Haredi communities is roughly the same as anywhere else.<sup id="cite_ref-times_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In many abuse cases, though, victims have not come forward with accusations because of stigmatization from the community, and when they did come forward, the matter generally stayed within the community rather than being reported to the police and forming part of crime statistics.<sup id="cite_ref-times_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sexual abuse within the community is often not reported to police. Rather than reporting to police, Haredim may take a case of sexual abuse to the <a href="/wiki/Shomrim_(volunteers)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shomrim (volunteers)">shomrim</a>, a local Jewish street patrol. The shomrim keep the names of suspected child molesters on file, but do not share them with law enforcement or take other measures to end abuse, and sometimes also try to discourage people from taking a case to the police.<sup id="cite_ref-voice_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-voice-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many feel that to report a Jew to non-Jewish authorities constitutes the religious crime of <i><a href="/wiki/Mesirah" title="Mesirah">mesirah</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-times_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-voice_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-voice-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Samuel Heilman, a professor of Jewish studies at <a href="/wiki/Queens_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Queens College">Queens College</a>, says that telling outside police would betray the Jewish community.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Agudath_Israel_of_America" title="Agudath Israel of America">Agudath Israel of America</a>, an ultra-Orthodox organization, has stated that observant Jews should not report allegations to law enforcement without first consulting with a rabbi.<sup id="cite_ref-times_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-voice_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-voice-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, other rabbis, including a <a href="/wiki/Chabad-Lubavitch" class="mw-redirect" title="Chabad-Lubavitch">Chabad-Lubavitch</a> rabbinic court in <a href="/wiki/Crown_Heights,_Brooklyn" title="Crown Heights, Brooklyn">Crown Heights</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yosef_Blau" title="Yosef Blau">Yosef Blau</a>, disagree and encourage reporting abusers to police, stating that the ban on <i>mesirah</i> does not apply.<sup id="cite_ref-times_11-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cbs_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbs-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_notable_cases">Other notable cases</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Child_sexual_abuse_in_New_York_City_religious_institutions&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Other notable cases"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bruce_Ritter,_Covenant_House"><span id="Bruce_Ritter.2C_Covenant_House"></span>Bruce Ritter, Covenant House</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Child_sexual_abuse_in_New_York_City_religious_institutions&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bruce Ritter, Covenant House"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Ritter" title="Bruce Ritter">Bruce Ritter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Covenant_House#Scandal" title="Covenant House">Covenant House § Scandal</a></div> <p>Father <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Ritter" title="Bruce Ritter">Bruce Ritter</a>, founder of <a href="/wiki/Covenant_House#Scandal" title="Covenant House">Covenant House</a> in Manhattan, was forced to resign in 1990 after accusations that he had engaged in financial improprieties and had engaged in sexual relations with several youth in the care of the charity.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Yeshiva_University_high_school">Yeshiva University high school</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Child_sexual_abuse_in_New_York_City_religious_institutions&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Yeshiva University high school"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In December 2012, the President of the <a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism" title="Orthodox Judaism">Orthodox Jewish</a> <a href="/wiki/Yeshiva_University" title="Yeshiva University">Yeshiva University</a> apologized over allegations that two rabbis at the college's high school campus abused boys there in the late 1970s and early ’80s.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A later December report in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Forward" title="The Forward">The Forward</a></i> focused on one Yeshiva University High School for Boys official, Rabbi George Finkelstein, and spoke "to 14 men who sa[id] that Finkelstein abused them while he was employed at [YUHSB] ... from 1968 to 1995". The report also concluded that YU and the governing Orthodox <a href="/wiki/Rabbinical_Council_of_America" title="Rabbinical Council of America">Rabbinical Council of America</a> had known about accusations against Finkelstein for a decade or longer. In addition, "[f]rom the mid 1980s until today ... Y.U. officials and RCA rabbis have dismissed claims or kept them quiet" as Finkelstein went on to be dean of a <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a> <a href="/wiki/Day_school" title="Day school">day school</a> and then to the <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Great_Synagogue" title="Jerusalem Great Synagogue">Jerusalem Great Synagogue</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2013, Chancellor <a href="/wiki/Norman_Lamm" title="Norman Lamm">Norman Lamm</a> announced his retirement after more than 60 years at the University, and apologized for not responding more assertively when students at Yeshiva University High School for Boys said that two rabbis there had sexually abused them.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Child_sexual_abuse_in_New_York_City_religious_institutions&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hush_(novel)" title="Hush (novel)">Hush (novel)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_abuse" title="Religious abuse">Religious abuse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexual_abuse" title="Sexual abuse">Sexual abuse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexual_misconduct" title="Sexual misconduct">Sexual misconduct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spiritual_abuse" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiritual abuse">Spiritual abuse</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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title="Jewish Community Watch">Jewish Community Watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Center_for_Missing_%26_Exploited_Children" title="National Center for Missing & Exploited Children">National Center for Missing & Exploited Children</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prevention_Project_Dunkelfeld" title="Prevention Project Dunkelfeld">Prevention Project Dunkelfeld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Awareness_Center" title="The Awareness Center">The Awareness Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manny_Waks" title="Manny Waks">Tzedek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Special_Rapporteur_on_the_Sale_and_Sexual_Exploitation_of_Children" title="United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children">United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Social views</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" 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