NEW YORK
The Journal News
Jane Lerner, jlerner@lohud.com July 17, 2015
The case is being closely watched in the Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities, which have long struggled with allegations that victims of sexual abuse are discouraged from reporting the crimes.
A New Square man recalled in excruciating detail Friday how a New Square educator instructed him to take off his pants and began molesting him on Sept. 11, 2001, when he was 8 years old.
The alleged abuse didn’t stop until he moved out of the village more than five years later, the victim, now in his 20s, said as he took the stand for a second day in the trial of Moshe Menachem Taubenfeld, 55, a family friend.
Taubenfeld, also known as Mendel Zarkowsky, is charged with second-degree course of sexual conduct against a child, a felony. He has denied the charges.
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