26.05.2011                      22.Ijar, 5771                      Tag 37 des Omer

Missbrauch:

Expert warns religious educators of denial of sexual abuse

Taboo surrounding issue of molestation in religious society leads to low number of reports.

The denial and complacency within the national-religious sector regarding sexual assault of minors is wrong and harmful to the victims, an expert warned a forum of educators on Wednesday – emphasizing the danger of the belief that a rabbinic figure would not molest a child.
Speaking at the Rehovot campus of Orot Teachers’ College on their annual conference dedicated to leadership, Adi Fishman, an Education Ministry expert on preventing and treating sexual assault, specializing in the national-religious sector, said “the religious public’s feeling – as though its children are more protected from sexual assault than those of other populaces – is wrong.”…