Rabbi Who Exposes Sex Abuse in Ultra-Orthodox Community Assaulted
Rabbi Who Exposes Sex Abuse in Ultra-Orthodox Community Assaulted
A NEW York City rabbi who publicizes claims of child sexual abuse in the local ultra-Orthodox community is hospitalised after someone threw an unknown chemical at him.
Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg told The New York Times that a man he recognized tossed the liquid in his face as he walked in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighbourhood.
Police say the two were involved in an “ongoing dispute.” No arrest has been made.
Rosenberg runs a website that publicizes child sexual abuse victims in the Satmar Hasidic community.
On Monday, a prominent member of the community, Nechemya Weberman, was convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a girl who had come to him for counselling.