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Thursday 27 June 2013

Menachem Mendel Levy jailed for three years



Menachem Levy, 41, of Princes Park Avenue, was found guilty in May of indecent assault of a female under the age of 16 following a trial at Wood Green Crown Court.

Levy first targeted the victim, who was 14 when the abuse began, when he visited her family home in Hendon in December 1999, He then subjected her to a series of sexual assaults at other locations, including Levy’s home address, until December 2005,  

The woman suffered a “course of sexual abuse” between the ages of 14 and 21, “beginning when she was a child in the eyes of the law”, prosecutor David Markham told Wood Green Crown Court. After Mr Levy had first touched her sexually when she was 14, the abuse had escalated over years as he “forced himself on her for sexual intercourse”.

The woman — who cannot legally be identified — “did not complain during that period, because in essence she thought she was to blame,” Mr Markham said.

“This was a belief and conviction rooted in her upbringing in north London and the Orthodox Jewish community.”

Mr Levy had exploited her naivety and fears, he said, by telling the woman that she would be the one in trouble if she raised the alarm, throughout the ordeal, Levy constantly told the girl that she was to blame for the abuse and that if she told anyone she would get into trouble.

The woman, the barrister said, had resisted his sexual overtures on some occasions and on others had submitted “with a sense of powerlessness” but in neither situation had she consented.

It was only later when she was abroad and saw a TV programme about sexual abuse that she grasped the magnitude of what had happened to her, he said. When she returned home, in 2006, she told her parents and later spoke to rabbis in her community.

Two years ago, she sent a letter to Mr Levy, detailing the pain his actions had caused her. It said: “You smouldered and suffocated my soul… stole my education… and virginity. You now question what you can do to make it go away… It will never go away. I cannot buy the things you stole from me.”

The letter went on to suggest that he should apologise to her and reimburse her parents for the counselling and therapy she had undergone.

“If an apology had been forthcoming and resolution possible within the community, she would not have gone to the police,” Mr Markham said.

In a video interview with police played to the jury, the woman said she had felt she had been used “like a utensil” by Mr Levy and had hated what went on.

At one stage, she had taken to cutting herself with a razor — “the only way I could get rid of the pain building up inside me”.

Explaining why she taken time to go to police, she said that “in the religious Jewish world, you don’t call the police for anything unless someone is murdering someone or stealing”.

When she had consulted rabbis, “they basically told me there was nothing they could do; they didn’t know what to do. They all started coming up with their bull**** excuses.”

Repeatedly questioned by the defence barrister as to why she had not told someone, the woman described herself as having been “very naive” and said: “In hindsight if I had known how wrong what he was doing really was, I would have said something.”

He was described as “a good man” by a leading Golders Green rabbi, Chaim Halpern, who gave evidence at the trial.

Prosecutor David Markham called Mr Levy a “predatory and controlling individual” who had exploited a “vulnerable” young woman.

Mr Levy, who had admitted to rabbis that he had had an affair, had followed their suggestions on how to make recompense.

He had made a charitable donation to the family of £1,500 through one rabbi, which the father had kept for the woman’s therapy fees

When another rabbi — Rabbi Halpern — had suggested offering a further payment of £4,000, Mr Levy had been reluctant in case it were taken as an admission of the allegations being made by the family.


“The rabbi said ‘pay it’; he paid it,” but the money was rejected by the family.

Levy was arrested at his home in July 2011 and was charged in April the following year.
Det Con Alistair Woods, from the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command, said: “The victim has shown a tremendous amount of courage to come forward and give a detailed account of the abuse she suffered by Levy.
“No one should suffer in silence - I would urge anyone who is a victim to come and speak to us and let us help you.
“Specially trained officers will support you, and thoroughly investigate your claims.
“This sentencing demonstrates that the courts will prosecute those who prey on vulnerable people, irrespective of their background or status.
“I hope today’s sentencing can offer some kind of closure to the victim and her family.”

Menachem Levy, 41, of Princes Park Avenue, was jailed for three years at Wood Green Crown Court for repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl over a period of six years
 Wood Green Crown Court 








33 comments:

  1. What a pity this disgusting monster only got three years. With remission for good conduct he'll be out and ready to prey on other girls after a year or even less. How outrageous that in addition to the years of abuse, he put her through a court trial in which his barrister repeatedly tried to break her down and tell her she was lying.

    Who are the rabbonim who failed this brave young woman? Menachem Mendel Levy is a name which suggests membership of the Lubavitch community. I hope it wasn't Lubavitch rabbonim, but we need to know, so that women will be aware of how little help they are likely to get from those rabbonim who did fail her.

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  2. כף החיים27 June 2013 at 20:53

    Menachem Mendel nothing to worry about.. you will soon be joined by a big fat Rabbi and a few more Heimishe monsters so you all will have your own Minyan with a brand new synagouge in jail named כף החיים or כף הקלע

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  3. YOu dont know even a quarter of what evil stuff this monster levy has done. You would not have a normal night sleep if u only knew.

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    1. Police will investigate any new allegations made against Menachem Levy. If you have any further information please call 0208 733 5062 which is the number shown above.

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  4. banged up time27 June 2013 at 23:41

    Mr konig..... watch out u are next, but only a life sentence

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    1. Which mr Konig are you talking about?

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  5. Rav Padwa filey avenue28 June 2013 at 07:27

    I WANT I SHOULD EXPRESS THAT I AM ASHAMED THAT RAV HALPERN GAVE CHARACTOR REFERENCE FOR THIS PEDOPHILE.

    HALPERN WILL SOON JOIN HIM


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  6. afrium goldstien28 June 2013 at 07:58

    SICK PEODOPHILE MENACHEM MENDAL LEVY MAYBE SOMEONE WILL DO THE SAME TO YOUR DAUGHTERS ALSO HOW CAN Rav CHAIM HALPERN GIVE CHARACTOR REFERENCE FOR YOU WHEN HIS JUSt AS BAD as a sex predeter hAS YOU I DONT BELIEVE IT B-HASHEM to the judge BUT U SHOULD OF GOT LIFE

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    1. how the hell can you wish abuse on someone just because they are the children of an alleged abuser?? learn to spell and write and shut up and get on with your own life you ignorant idiot

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    2. Calm down u farting ugly shit

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    3. afrium goldstien28 June 2013 at 15:09

      CONVICTED PEADO RAPIST CHILD ABUSER GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT U SCHMOK BENZONA

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  7. Nuchem Rosenberg28 June 2013 at 10:26

    I Wonder If He Is a Member In Halpern's Shul

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  8. Stamford Hiller28 June 2013 at 10:28

    Were is our own Bal Moifess ???

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  9. Who is next??? It used to be that jews go to court for finance reasons, now its just like what u see on tge front pages of the sun, or the mirror. Shame on you!!!

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  10. Chaim must be wetting himself

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  11. So sorry i couldnt reach court in time the train was out of service

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  12. I am sure mr schlieder can sneek in a bottle of vodka for you.

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  13. please don't forget his children have done nothing wrong

    yes he done something wrong he admitted it in court he was only disputing the age and timing .

    think if you were sent down would you like all this be written about you.

    he is a changed man now all is historic none is new stuff

    good Shabbos all

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    1. it is only historic because of chaim halpern that told the victim he would do something and this family trusted him
      he just cast them aside as crazy's, wheres all the lubavitch wankers that help abuse this family

      in the court chaim rappaport said for the defense that in our religion the age is irrelevant his sin was to his wife that he apologized to
      he also had a lot of lubavitch supporters there, seems that abuse is ok in lubavitch

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    2. another frumer28 June 2013 at 18:49

      Just try and imagine that this has has happened to your own own daughter, I am not so sure u would be so forgiving to this monster. Just remember and think about the poor victims for once, and stop justifying these terrible shameful acts.

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    3. I am sure that if it happened to a close family member of yours, it wouldn't be so so historic!!!

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    4. False Rachmonus30 June 2013 at 00:02

      This sort of Rachmones!! is destroying our community ... it has to stop

      Put simple "if you do the crime you serve the time" !!

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  14. I sense there are many 'Bashers' on here who are literately hating their own lives/marriages and soak in other people's downfalls.

    Shame on you!

    Yes, People have always been sinners and will always be! Get over it! The thing is that most people dont get caught and tried in a court.

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    1. Chas V'sholom! I don't know about you but most of us have never molested children or had affairs. It's true that all people sin but not such wicked sins like these.

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  15. Oh dear Mendel, how was shabbos in your little cell??? Not such fun is it.

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  16. The Meshichesten will have to admit that Meshech has to come A.S.A.P

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  17. WHEN HE COMES OUT OF PRISON, THE FIRST SHABBOS HE WILL GET SHISHY OR MAFTIR AND A PAT ON THE BACK "SHOLOM ALEICHEM a yid "

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    1. With a name like Levy, what makes you think he will get shishy?

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