An Orthodox Jewish man accused
of raping a young Brooklyn boy in a ritual bath pleaded guilty today in an
agreement that will likely get him five years in prison when he is sentenced.
Meir Dascalowitz, 29, had
faced 32 counts of felony and misdemeanor sex abuse but pleaded guilty to just
one count of sexual abuse in the second degree.
“Do you admit that you …
engaged in anal sexual conduct with a person who was less than 15 years old?”
Judge Joseph Gubbay asked Dascalowitz, who answered, “Yes.”
The victim’s father joyfully
held up his hands in court as the plea was announced.
“I’m very happy my son got
justice. To go through a trial would have been very difficult for a
mentally-disabled boy,” said father Mordechai Jungreis, who was exiled from his
Orthodox community for reporting the abuse to outside authorities.
“I was shunned in the community.
I’m happy to show the community that the game is over. If you do the crime,
then you need to do the time.”
boruch hashem this family have some justice. its terribel they have to sufer such tzorres and then cant get any justice without being called a moiser
ReplyDeleteThat the victim was underage and disabled compounds the number of Torah prohibitions in this act of abomination.
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