Story here.
Abuse goes hush-hush in the Orthodox community because they’d rather not turn it over to secular authorities.
Conservatives pretend to be scared of ‘sharia law’ but we have some twisted 21st C. perverted versions of ‘Torah law’ going on right here. None of it is in the Torah, of course.
Fucking assholes.
It’s not all Orthodox Jews that I’m pitting - it’s the ones that enable this shit to go on.
FUCK YOU.
לך תזדיין
Religious communities that discourage oversight from secular authorities hide evidence of sexual abuse of children.
News at 11.
I think we did this about a month ago.
This, and the issues in the Catholic church (and even, it could be argued, the Sandusky thing) are perfect examples of why letting religious communities police themselves is a horrible idea. The concerns of Important People within the community will always take precedence over those of the common people.
Ed Koch wrote a good pice on this. I’ll try and find a link.
I’m not under any impression that we let these people police themselves. They are just doing it on their own. It’s really hard to police a group of people who voluntarily won’t tell other people about their problems.
I know accusations of sexual wrong-doing are potentially damaging to someone and shouldn’t be levied casually, especially since they are often so hard to prove. But come on now. There’s a difference between taking a neutral stance until an investigation is finished and having a ticker-tape parade to rally behind the accused. Unless you have 24/7 surveillance footage of a person, you don’t know what they do or have done behind closed doors. Every person is capable of molestation and rape–especially people in power. If you throw your support behind someone who is charged with a crime you have no way of knowing that they did or not, don’t you look a little crazy when all the evidence rolls in?
Of course . . . this just made me think of a recent thread (can’t quite find it) where someone was advocating that we allow religions to enforce their own marriage/divorce “laws”.
Did you see where the Brooklyn DA is cozy with the communities? He wouldn’t even publish the names of the accused or the convicted.
It’s really no secret that the Hasidim prefer to keep their dirty business so locked tight that they let criminals go unpunished.
I remember that thread. The proposal was even dumber than you stated. It was to have civil courts enforce the religious marriage/divorce “laws”.
The religious court went a lot easier on me than the civil one. 
Great for you. Would you want the county Sheriff enforcing a judgment (with the power to throw you in jail, because you didn’t kiss the pastor’s ass) on you if the decision had gone the other way?
I wouldn’t, especially if I had already decided that the pastor in question was religiously ‘full of shit’, but I have to abide by his decision, anyway, under force of law, enforced by the local Sheriff’s office, and the local court, for his religious judgment, just because I once accepted him as a religious authority.
The proposal presupposes that you are not allowed to change your mind on religion.
I’m thinking it’s a good thing for the Bet Din (however you spell it) to take care of the Religious stuff and Pulaski County to take care of the legal stuff, even if the Pu Co judge screwed me.
Sorry if humor overcame my explanation.
Not a problem. On the contrary, it’s exactly my point. 
Which is sadly what’s happening in Britain right now/
All a Jewish Religious court does in a divorce is assure that everyone’s name is spelled right, and everyone knows that she is religiously divorced. She can’t remarry without one, but I can, because Jewish guys can technically have more than one wife.
They didn’t tell me about this when I signed up, dammit.
I can’t think of any community where that isn’t true, including the larger secular community.
I.e., “snitches get stitches.”
You sign up? I thought you had to have part of your Romney sliced off. If you quit, do you get it back?