At least three separate campers made police complaints
against one rabbi-staffer at Camp Dora Golding. These are in addition to the
complaints made against Chisdai Ben Porat this past summer.
But while Ben Porat
was arrested and is being prosecuted, I'm told the complaintsabout another
staffer did not result in a criminal prosecution due to an odd understanding of
Pennsylvania law that essentially makes it the responsibility of the children
and the prosecution to prove the abuser was getting sexual pleasure from the
abuse.
For example, if a molester gropes a child's thigh or
buttocks, say, and sleeps in the same bed with a the child and 'spoons' with
him, that molester would not be prosecuted in that county unless the child was
able to testify that the molester who did this was sexually aroused by doing
so.
(In essence, if the molester does not orgasm on the child or
in front of the child, or unless he is otherwise unmistakeably sexually
aroused, he won't be prosecuted.)
That said, other information I have shows that the boys who
made these complaints are believed to be telling the truth by social workers,
therapists, police and prosecutors.
Despite the police complaints made by these three boys,
haredi rabbis rushed to back the accused molester. One – the brother of a noted
kanoi – even gave him a job as the head of a new yeshiva – but that yeshiva has
still not opened.
On top of all this, there appears be two other alleged
victims who have not yet come forward.
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