Yeshiva Violates Law, Fails To Do Mandatory Background Check – New Hire "BT" Rapes 3 Boys

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School failed to protect brothers from pedophile
By YAAKOV LAPPIN

A pedophile with a record of sexual offenses dating back to 1994 was able to rape and sodomize three brothers repeatedly in recent months because the Petah Tikva religious boys' school that employed him as a maintenance worker failed to run his name by police as required by law, police told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

The suspect, Avraham Pikraz, 45, of Petah Tikva, had been tried three times in the past for sexual offenses involving minors, but psychiatric evaluations found him unfit to stand trial on each occasion.

After recently "turning religious," Pikraz found a job at the religious school, where he proceeded to sexually assault three brothers aged 9, 11, and 15 on several occasions, after gaining their trust.

Pikraz will be indicted on Thursday, but will not be required to appear in court, for his own protection, Petah Tikva Magistrate Nahum Sternlicht ruled on Wednesday.

"By law, the responsibility for identifying sex offenders falls on their employers," Supt. Guy Jacobson, the Youth Officer at the Petah Tikva police department, said.

"Every employer is required, on his own initiative, to obtain police approval for all employees who have access to children. Police are not called on to do this, the employers are.

"Theoretically, if a yeshiva which teaches children under the age of 18 employs a renovation team, they must run the names of each employee past the police to ensure that they are not sex offenders," Jacobson said.

It was too soon to say whether police would arrest the head of the religious school for not seeking police clearance for his employees, but failure to comply with the Child Protection Law is a criminal offense, Jacobson noted.

While placing the blame squarely on the school, Jacobson also hinted that previous court dealings with Pikraz had failed to protect children.

"This started in '94 and here we are in '09," he said.

Pikraz's lawyer, Ein Tzvi, seemed to be leaning towards the psychiatric line of defense once again, telling the court on Wednesday that his client "had been hospitalized at a psychiatric clinic in the past," and requesting further evaluations.

"Let's assume for the sake of argument that he is mentally ill," Jacobson said. "A court can demand that he be locked up in an institution for the mentally ill for 10 years or more.

"It is the allocated time period inside the institution that is important," Jacobson said.

[Hat Tip: JWB.]

Comments

[getzel rubashkin ( not )]

THANK YOU SHMARYA !!!

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Every day we need more good news about this jews ! Better if they are frum , much better if they are chasidim, and the best of all , if they are chabadnikim !

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Thank you Shmarya you make my day !!

PS: please find any thing about frum teaches , news about. a maintenance worker its not so good news , but I will give you a pass today.

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[Shlomo]

I would not normally reply to a comment, but that previous comment was the dumbest, most offensive peice of trash I have ever heard. What are we supposed to do, hide our head in the sands? Do you accuse Shmarya of making the story up? If this stuff is happening in our community, every instance has to be screamed about. Getzel, you should be ashamed of yourself.

[YAM]

Eat it getzel you creep. Arrangements could be made to fuck you. We shalll we meet?

[YAM]

Correction: Where shall we meet so that you to can get fucked!

[Rachel]

Anyone want to comment on the fact that three boys were raped? That the school didn't even do a simple background check? That all the children in the school were at risk?

Anybody? No? Okay, then I will.

I hope the head of the religious school is arrested and goes to jail. These boys will have to live with this pain for the rest of their lives. Everyone responsible should do time--not only the perpetrator, but also the people who were obligated to protect the children and didn't.

[Libby in the Hood]

Rachel: You are absolutely correct. If the people who are responsible for protecting our children can't or won't, then they should be viewed as accomplices in the crime. Therefore, Rabbis, Priests, Administrators, who sweep this under the carpet should be charged with the a crime. In the US, people that work with children are mandatory reporters and could be arrested if they fail to report abuse.

[Yoel]

don't mean to offend anyone, but the school administrators cannot be seen as accomplices, as they surely did not actively participate in the crime. This would probably be a case of negligence, or criminal negligence, etc. as the court will decide. This website is supposed to be about problems *with* the frum world. But it seems there can also be problems *in* the frum world that are problems, but located in the frum world for reasons unrelated to frumminess. Perhaps some more thought needs to be given to this distinction. One would have to play with prejudices and grudges to start to assume that the religiosity of the administrators inclined them to fail in their responsibilities.

[uncle joe mccarthy]

Yoel

if the law in israel now requires background checks, and the yeshiva did not do this, it is more than just simple negligence...it is gross negligence

they actively participated in not making sure that the children were protected

halachically, one is liable for not putting a fence around ones roof and a person falls...this is the same concept

[BIg Bubba]

TO getzxl rubxshkin ( not)
Do you know that in prison that ALL the inmates view a child molester as THE lowest form of life??
Why are you taking the side of the child molester?
Do you like little kiddies?
Do you like to 'diddle' with them?
YOU ARE A SICK FXCKING BASTARD!