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SluggishJ ago

I was looking into the Hasidic Jewish community and their rates of underage sex crimes. I learned that Williamsburg in Brooklyn is dominated by the community, and that sexual assault on underage children is rampant. What made me want to look into this was the fact that that one address that was posted in regards to Itchi Gross at 533 Bedford Ave in Brooklyn was located next to a shut down hebrew school (or something along those lines if my memory serves correct).

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99913807

The above link describes 2 ex-members of the hasidic jewish community that were abused sexually - one in his school at the United Talmudical Academy by his principal, and the other while he was in a "mikvah", a bath house. I went ahead and I looked up the different locations of synagogues and Talmudical Academies in the area as well as other cases of sex crimes against underage children from the hasidic jewish community focusing on the williamsburg, Brooklyn area. That lead me to find this article titled "The Child-Rape Assembly Line" about a hasidic jewish whistleblower that revealed just how rampant these crimes are:

http://www.vice.com/read/the-child-rape-assembly-line-0000141-v20n11

This whistleblower, Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, witnessed these abhorrent crimes for the first time in a mikvah, a bath house. Because he revealed the systematic nature of these crimes, he was excised from his community and was even the target of a bleach attack in which he had to go to the hospital with burns, partially blinded.

Although I haven't yielded any damning information yet, I'm wondering with that one building at 533 bedford ave connected to Itchi Gross in regards to the Hasidic Jewish community - is there any overlap? If so, where and with whom?

EDIT: Found a website that lists sexual offenders within the Orthodox Jewish Community:

http://protectjewishkids.com/?page_id=29

P.S mind is warped and the graphics on the child's backpack on the homescreen has me feeling weird, though I know I'm just seeing what I want to see

dFrog ago

Good work. Itchie Gross does very much appear to be a part of or associated with the Hasidic community in the area. Just look at his Facebook friends. I think there was a page somewhere about a Drizin family wedding with several photos, one of which had Gross in it, but did not name him. According to his FB, he started working at the Aleph Institute earlier this year. They have a summer camp program for kids whose parents are incarcerated. The page for it has two butterfly logos on it. I think I remember seeing a Chaim Drizin on his list of FB friends.