Make Protection Orthodox: Child Abuse Can’t Continue

New York Post
May 31, 2012

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/letters/make_protection_orthodox_child_abuse_FDPkZxUQnu8iezE7k65HAN

The Issue: How DA Hynes should deal with cases of child-sex abuse in Brooklyn’s Orthodox communities.

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The ultra-Orthodox rabbis who have been flouting the law should never be allowed to oversee street-surveillance programs in Brooklyn (“Faltering First Steps,” Editorial, May 26).

Only the NYPD should monitor crime.

Sue Daglian

Manhattan

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For those who serve Brooklyn’s Hasidic community, it comes as no surprise that the city and Brooklyn DA Charles “Joe” Hynes have approached the subject of child abuse with pathetic trepidation.

We see child neglect on a massive scale every day. Local police are told by their superiors not to issue tickets, and firefighters are told not to issue summonses when firetrap schools present a death threat to the youngest residents.

Joe Hynes

How ironic that these children are barely taught a thing about the country that provides them the freedoms they enjoy. That abuse gets swept under the rug is just par for the course.

Michael Watkins

Brooklyn

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The Orthodox Jewish community should read up on the Catholic calamity of the last dozen or so years and on how bad it is to blindly defend religious leaders.

It hurts to admit that our spiritual leaders are actually human, but ultimately it is freeing and makes for a more healing and cleansing church and temple.