Rabbi Convicted Of Molestation

An orthodox rabbi was convicted Thursday of molesting a female Israeli Army officer on a trans-Atlantic flight.

 

Orthodox rabbi Gavriel Bidany found guilty of molesting female Israeli Army officer on flight
John Marzulli • NY DAILY NEWS

  An orthodox rabbi was convicted Thursday of molesting a female Israeli Army officer on a trans-Atlantic flight.

Gavriel Bidany was sitting next to the 23-year-old woman on a Delta jet last month and reached out from under his blanket to fondle her as she slept.

Magistrate Ramon Reyes said the victim's testimony about the assault was "compelling and wholly believeable."

Reyes, who presided over the bench trial in Brooklyn Federal Court, said there was "no question in my mind" about the rabbi's guilt.

Bidany, the married father of 11 children, showed no emotion when the verdict was announced.

The woman, a lieutenant commander of a missile defense unit, declined to comment. The Daily News is withholding her name because she is the victim of a sex crime.

Assistant U.S. Attorney David Sarratt ridiculed Bidany's claim that if there was touching, it happened inadvertently while he slept.

"If these were random reaches of a sleeping man why is it the defendant had such precise accuracy, reaching private areas?" Sarratt said.

The prosecutor also blasted defense lawyer Saul Bienenfield's argument that the victim would have pummeled the defendant with self-defense skills learned in the Army if she was attacked.

"[The victim] acted perfectly and with remarkable poise despite the defendant's repeated violations of her personal space," Sarratt said.

Bidany faces up to six months in prison when he is sentenced next week by Reyes. He is free on $500,000 bail.

Comments

[ah-pee-chorus]

NICE!!!!!!!!

rot in jail, you animal. i bet you wont inadvertantly touch your cellmates as you sleep.

[seymour]

for all the frummies who say hey he was sleeping and it was an accident.

The same thing happened to me, I was on a plane and a gentle had a cheese burgers on his table i inadvertently took his burger and ate it.

When my yeshiva found out, they laughed when I told them is was an accident I did when I was sleeping.

Should have groped the person instead.

[corn popper]

Seymour,
Why did you need to swipe his? What was wrong with yours?

[ah-pee-chorus]

rather than the yeshiva world using the multiple rabbi gropings on planes as a sign that there is a real deficiency in their morality , they will instead claim that these are all exasmples of anti-haredi bias and demand that their followers expend more effort to obtain seats next to men only. yeah, that should solve the problem.

[A E ANDERSON]

$500,000 bail seems quite a bit for an offence that carries a six-month sentence!

[coolchassid]

I have doubts that this lady would have taken a non haredi to the court
Hashgocho protis, nobody is free from the yetzer ARAH
Look at Shmarya, an ex-lubavitcher chassid who as captured by his Yezer Ara

[steve]

He can't be guilty, just look at the length of his beard. He must be a mekubal (or a mekabel at least). He must have gotten disoriented and thought he was at home in bed with his wife.

[jomadar]

coolhassid- you must be brain damaged. no other explanation to youre mindless scribbling here.

[jomadar]

what do we expect from somone who has 11 children he live only to have sex all day all night , he goes nuts if he doent have any for a few hours , he couldnt hold himself back since his whole existance is based on having sex at will.

[coolchassid]

jomadar
you undeveloped mind can't grasp the real message here

[ah-pee-chorus]

coolchassid -

what does hashgacha protis have to do with a guy touching a strangers genitals?

[Loshon Hora]

Shmaryahoo!
Is that why you said in Halel today [if you still say it]
Zeh Hayom osoh Hashem nogilah venismecha bo.
This is the day G-d has made let us rejoice & be happy on it?
Another beard clad Ortho Jew was convicted.

[corn popper]

what do we expect from somone who has 11 children he live only to have sex all day all night , he goes nuts if he doent have any for a few hours , he couldnt hold himself back since his whole existance is based on having sex at will.

Posted by: jomadar | May 05, 2011 at 03:33 PM

Jomadar,
All it takes is 11 precisely timed opportunities.
You sound a little jealous though.

[who knows]

$500,000 bail seems quite a bit for an offence that carries a six-month sentence!

Posted by: A E ANDERSON | Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand | May 05, 2011 at 03:20 PM

Strangely the groper rabbi has paid this exhobirant sum and is free on bail. How wealthy this guy is?

[Isa]

"""Another beard clad Ortho Jew was convicted."""

One down many more to go

[jay]

Dang, if he can grope so accurately while unconscious, no wonder he has eleven children! The guy is shooting smart bombs!

[OMG]

Posted by: seymour | May 05, 2011 at 03:08 PM

Thank you for the laughs, I really needed it.

[coolchassid]

ahpee

the hashgocho protis is that the lady took it to court and the outcome

[jancsipista]

corn popper- he pops it for 9 moths when his wife is pregnant thats hundreds if not thousands of pops between the legs isnt that a bit much i am jeoulous since i dont get that many chances to pop it you get my drift.

[seymour]

or all the frummies who say hey he was sleeping and it was an accident.

The same thing happened to me, I was on a plane and a gentle had a cheese burgers on his table i inadvertently took his burger and ate it.

When my yeshiva found out, they laughed when I told them is was an accident I did when I was sleeping.

Should have groped the person instead.

Posted by: seymour | May 05, 2011 at 03:08 PM

the reason i say it, that no frum person would buy that excuse if it involved eating trief, but would use that excuse in this case.

simple when it come to these issues or financial scams they can come up with a million excuses, or heterin but if it involves the other stuff the same excuse are a non starter.

should I name you yeshivas that are known to be excellent yeshivas and teach the children to be good yiddin but are committing day in and day out

why is a person still called a rebbie even when convicted of fraud and still will get shilishie

[Zoobiemanyak]

He must have gotten disoriented and thought he was at home in bed with his wife.
Posted by: steve
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Or in the mikvah with a kinderlach!!!

[ah-pee-chorus]

the hashgocho protis is that the lady took it to court and the outcome

Posted by: coolchassid |

that is called the justice system working properly and getting another perv off the streets. nothing more.

[tooclose2detroit]

off the streets?-6 months and he'll be back at it again-and I will assume this wasnt his first time, just the first time he got reported-

[A. Nuran]

A E Anderson writes:
$500,000 bail seems quite a bit for an offence that carries a six-month sentence!

It's to discourage flight. There's a good chance he'd bugger off to Israel where it would be nearly impossible to get him back.

[WoolSilkCotton]

How will he explain to his wife that the trip to America ended up being 6 months longer than planned? A holy mission to a town called Otisville?

[effie]

I'm sure Delta will ban him, but what about other airlines?

[Isa]

Lets say he buggers his own kids...

With this conviction, they will have a far easier time of getting people to believe them.

[seymour]

please

groping a woman and child abuse molestation are two different things altogether lets no go crazy

[steve]

He should be on the no fly list.

[corn popper]

off the streets?-6 months and he'll be back at it again-and I will assume this wasnt his first time, just the first time he got reported-

Posted by: tooclose2detroit | May 05, 2011 at 05:11 PM

2close2detroit4way2long,
Tell us more about your taxi ride in israel.

[coolchassid]

he is a zionist Rabbi
At this time , I am positive that he Did teshuvah ,therefore he is not anymore the terrible guy who did such an avla, he is a new person

[A. Nuran]

Steve, he should be on the zipped fly list

[A. Nuran]

coolchassid, has he begged the forgiveness of his victim and done whatever she feels is necessary to make good her injury?

[WoolSilkCotton]

He will have lots of extra time to do even more tshuva in prison.

Since he is a new person, the old person will be the one spending time in prison.

Hope he can get cigarettes in Otisville.

[steve]

Read about some of the talmidim of this rabbi:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08207/899392-57.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml

http://www.brandonsun.com/world/breaking-news/nj-man-pleads-guilty-to-sexually-assaulting-sleeping-passenger-seated-next-to-him-on-airplane-119713444.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2065533

[steve]

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM DR. ASHER LIPNER:

Dear Friends and Fellow Advocates,

Tomorrow there will be another hearing in the Dascalowitz case. The family of the victim are in need of much support. It is very important that we are there for them.

9am @ 320 Jay Street, Brooklyn NY

They are getting more and more threats from members of the community inspired by the Poppa Rebbe's raising money for the molester's defense fund. When they complained to the ADA involved in their case he told them that if they feel unsafe they should move out of Williamsburg. The coldhearted lack of concern for the harrassment that victims of abuse receive by the community on the part of secular law enforcement will only change when the "political climate" changes. The more support the DA sees the victims have the more he will feel pressure to protect our children and the families of victims.

We know that our Gedolim are still concerned only with the welfare of the molesters. Agudah is having a conference May 15th in which the same rabbis who told the NY Times that Jewish molesters should not have to go to jail, will be lecturing to psychologists on the halacha's of mesira. Although psychologists are mandated by law to protect children and reporter abuse, apparently there is still some question in halacha whether or not they should keep these laws. I wonder if the DA or the licensing board would know about this session on "To obey the law or not" , how he would feel about it. Maybe there would be some arrests and then Agudah would have another "event" like the one with the Spinka Rebbe and Ben Braffman where the Gedolim creatively and ingeniously came up with a new policy called "obey the law." We can only hope.

I got a call recently from a friend of the sexual abuse victims of Rabbi Gershon Kranczer (who is still a fugitive from the law). The girls are suffering terribly and not going to psychotherapy. They were told by Rabbi Yisroel Reisman that they are not allowed to give any more information to the police as it is mesirah. So, now that they see they are not supported by the community, and that even leading rabbis like Rabbi Reisman who is the guest of honor at the Agudah conference are against them and on the side of the rapist, they are petrified. They have taken to cutting themselves with razor blades and contemplating suicide. How the rabbi can live with himself is beyond me. Perhaps he will discuss this at the conference.

Meanwhile we need to show the world that the tide is changing and that there ARE Jews who care more about the victims than the perpetrators.

Please try to come.

Asher

[ruthie]

cool hasid..NEWS FLASH...
you are SO NOT COOL.
you're probably more stupid than you look.
any man that would put his hand on me on an international flight...
WHAT!!! c'mon...
how dare they?
and how dare you think only because he's haredi. because he's haredi just makes it more heartbreaking...esp. for us jews that only used to look up to the haredim for being so religious. hurts us more than you realize.
now put your thinking cap on...and resume your day

[meridian]

Hormones and no self control

[coolchassid]

Ruthie
Our sages have informed us that no matter how grave a sin a person may have done “nothing can stand in the way of teshuva.” (Rambam Hilchos Teshuvah 3:14; Yerushalmi Pe’ah 1:1, Sanhedrin 103a).

[A. Nuran]

Coolchasid - Yours is typical Charedi arrogance. "No matter what I do I just have to matter some Hebrew and whip out my Get Out of Hell Free card. Why are the goyim and aporikosim making such a fuss?"

In the real world, the one where your cult does not rule the planet, that kind of crap doesn't fly. You can pat yourself on the back all you want about how holy you are and how sins don't stick to you. Everyone else understands that a groping pervert is a groping pervert and belongs in jail.

[coolchassid]

nuran

not arrogange. I just quoted sources from our Holy Torah, that I think has more relevance than your limited understanting

in the real world, G-d is the ruler

there were terrible what this guy did, not question, but he has an opportunity to repent and become a good human being as well as you too