
A rabbi's son who molested two teenage girls was "an utter hypocrite" who professed his Orthodox faith while "cynically condemning his victims to suffer", a judge has said.
Todros Grynhaus, 50, was jailed for 13 years and two months for the sex attacks.
He must pay one victim £45,000 and the other £35,000 in compensation as well as prosecution costs of £35,000.
Grynhaus had taught in Jewish schools before setting up a successful direct debit management business while filling a role as a respected figure within the Charedi community in Salford.
Mr Justice Timothy Holroyde, sentencing Grynhaus at Manchester Crown Court on Friday, said: "This was a refined degree of cruelty on your part. You knew what you were doing and you knew what harm you would cause.
Timeline
● June 1996 – March 2005: Grynhaus abuses two girls
● November 2012: He is reported to police and later charged
● January 2013: Grynhaus appears in court but later breaches bail and flees to Israel on a false passport
● March 2013: Israeli authorities detain Grynhaus and the deportation process begins
● February 2015: Jury in first trial fails to reach verdict. Second trial in May results in conviction
"You are an utter hypocrite. You professed your religion whilst cynically condemning your victims to suffer and giving false evidence seeking to cast blame on them.
"You believed that the combination of the girls' sexual ignorance and the attitudes of some within your community would make it even harder for your victims to complain about you, and you came close to getting away with it."
The judge said the evidence had shown some Charedi community members were "taken in" by Grynhaus's "lying protestations of innocence".
But he added: "Others will have to examine their own consciences, and should reflect that, but for the courage of your two victims, your serious crimes would have gone unpunished.
The court had heard that reports of sexual assault in the Charedi community tended to be dealt with "in-house", and Grynhaus had relied on a "prevailing attitude of insularity" to keep his sickening crimes from ever being exposed.
But when one of his victims, who was abused between the ages of 13 and 16, plucked up the courage to discuss matters with a psychologist in 2009, Grynhaus sought to ostracise her from the community and said her claims were fabricated.
When Grynhaus was eventually arrested and charged he appeared in court, but was granted bail and fled to Israel on a false passport.
He was held there for attempting to enter the country fraudulently. After 18 months in an Israeli prison he was deported to England and eventually stood trial in January this year.
Grynhaus, the son of influential London rabbi Dayan David Grynhaus, was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life and will be on an extended licence for four years when he is released from prison.
Alistair Webster QC read a statement from one of the victims, who said: "I was used and abused in the most sickening way. This was something I buried very deep down and tried not to reveal to anyone. All I could do was spend every day thinking about the abuse over and over again.
"I felt guilty and at fault for the abuse I suffered. I have had to relive in court the traumas and say in public the filthy things he did to me."
In another statement, the second victim said: "Every single facet of my life is tainted by Todros Grynhaus's touch. I am constantly afraid. It feels as though my sexuality was hijacked and derailed at the age of 15. I find it impossible to trust anyone."
Grynhaus's barrister, Jonathan Goldberg QC, said: "He had outstandingly good character as a neighbour, communal figure and as a teacher.
"Of course, it can be said and rightly so that those people could not see his darker psychosexual side."
On remand in prison, Grynhaus has been locked up for 23 hours a day because he could not bond with other, non-Jewish, prisoners.
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