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Abuse

Christian Aid in false sex abuse claims

June 3, 2010

Christian Aid was expected to be reported to the Charity Commission this week after it claimed Israeli settlers had sexually abused Palestinian children in Hebron.

The charity issued an unreserved apology following the false claims, made after social worker Miranda Pinch travelled to the West Bank.

She had worked to "monitor human rights abuses" as part of an accompaniment programme part-funded by the charity.

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Covering up a shocking crime

By Miriam Shaviv, May 21, 2010

No subject has irritated the Orthodox world more, this year, than sexual abuse perpetrated by its religious leaders.

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Suicide newlywed 'was sex-abused'

By Ellen Tumposky, November 19, 2009

A report that a Brooklyn man who committed suicide two days after his wedding was a victim of sex abuse has riled the Orthodox community.

Mordechai (Motty) Borger, 24, jumped from the seventh-floor terrace of his hotel on November 5. His bride, Mali Gutman, whom he married on Nov 3 after they met through a matchmaker, was asleep in the room.

A spokeswoman for the NYC medical examiner’s office said the death has been ruled a suicide.

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Think domestic abuse isn't our problem? Think again

By Alex Kasriel, November 19, 2009

To the outside world, Sarah and her family were a typical middle-class Jewish family. But after his business started to fail, Sarah’s husband began to control and humiliate her. He stopped her contacting friends and colleagues, tried to dictate what she wore and forced her into a purely domestic role. He became aggressive with their two children. Eventually she sought help through the charity Jewish Women’s Aid and won a restraining order against him.

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Father: School failed daughter over racist bullying

By Leon Symons, August 6, 2009

The father of a four-year-old girl subjected to antisemitic abuse from pupils at her infants’ school has accused the school and its education authority of trying to sweep the matter under the carpet.

The girl’s father, Nick Johnstone, claimed that Hallfield Infants and the local council, Westminster in central London, had failed to hold a proper investigation into the incidents that forced him to withdraw his daughter near the end of last term.

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