UNITED KINGDOM
International Business Times
By Hannah Osborne
January 30, 2013
A Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has uncovered evidence of religious officials hiding child sex abuse in Britain after secretly filming a senior rabbi telling a victim not to involve the police.
The documentary, Britain’s Hidden Child Abuse, shows how some rabbis within a strict Orthodox Jewish community forbid victims from reporting crimes committed against them.
There are around 40,000 Charedin – strict Orthodox Jews – in Britain. During the investigation, reporters uncovered 19 alleged cases of child sex abuse. None had been reported to the police.
Rabbi Ephraim Padwa, who leads the Charedi community in north London’s Stamford Hill, is secretly filmed speaking to an alleged victim of child sex abuse.
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