NEW YORK
Huffington Post
Leah Vincent
Yoelly Twersky* grew up in the Hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His father wore a sleek fur hat, and his mother smelled of vegetable soup and rugalach. When Yoelly started eighth grade, his new teacher seemed to take an immediate dislike to him, striking him almost every morning.
“I thought the teacher knew what was best,” Yoelly says, thinking back. “Physical punishment was normal in my school, and I figured it had to be that I deserved it.”
Six months into the year, his teacher called him into the school’s boiler closet. In that dark dank room, the teacher pulled down both their pants, and raped the little boy.
“I was screaming the whole time,” Yoelly recalls. “When he finished, he went back to the classroom and I stayed where I was, in shock, gushing blood.”
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