Senior British rabbi filmed telling alleged child abuse victim not to go to the police [View all]
Source: Independent
Senior British rabbi filmed telling alleged child abuse victim not to go to the police
Tom Peck
Wednesday 30 January 2013
A senior British rabbi has been filmed telling an alleged victim of child sexual abuse not to go to the police.
Rabbi Ephraim Padwa, who is leader of the UKs Strictly Orthodox Jewish community, told the alleged victim that it was mesira, or forbidden, to report a suspected Jewish sex offender to a non-Jewish authority.
His advice, which was secretly recorded as part of a Channel 4s Dispatches investigation to be shown tonight, will reignite the controversy about the cover-up of child sex abuse by religious groups following global scandals surrounding the Roman Catholic church
Strictly Orthodox Jewish people, known as Charedi, number 40,000 people, around a sixth of the Jewish population in Britain.
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