Haredi Rabbis Who Cover Up Child Sex Abuse To Have Complete Control Over Leiby Kletzky Security Camera Footage

After almost 2 years of secrecy (and, many say, deception) by NY State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Agudath Israel of America and State Senator Dean Skelos (who funded the $1 million grant with Hikind), 100 security cameras are reportedly about to be installed in Borough Park – under the complete control of the very haredi rabbis who have spent decades covering up child sex abuse and other crimes in the haredi community.

 

Remember that $1 million dollar New York State grant for security cameras from New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind and State Senator Dean Skelos to Agudath Israel of America after the Leiby Kletzky murder two years ago?

After more than one year of secrecy (and, many say, deception) by Hikind, Agudah and Skelos, 100 security cameras are reportedly about to be installed in Borough Park – under the complete control of Agudath Israel of America.

And like much of what Agudah and Hikind touch, there are clear signs of corruption.

The Associated Press reports:

…According to state documents, the grant will pay for the 100 cameras to be installed and maintained by Secure Watch 24, a private security firm, which will keep the recorded data for up to five years. The grantee is an LLC effectively controlled by Agudath Israel, which has lobbied many state and city officials on a host of issues.…

Access to and management of the cameras in Brooklyn was not entirely clear. The New York Police Department referred all questions about the security system to Secure Watch 24, which didn't respond to requests for comment.

Hikind said police and volunteer police groups would have access to the cameras after a significant crime only by making formal requests to Secure Watch 24.

"God forbid something happens, there's an incident, the police will have access to the video tape," he said.

Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said she was concerned that a private company would be managing a state-funded camera network placed on public property.

"I've never heard of the city farming out surveillance power like this," she said. "This horrific crime generated enormous pain in the community, but it's naive to think that a network of surveillance cameras is the answer to fears for the safety of our children.”…

In other words, the very haredi rabbinic leaders who have spent decades covering up child sex abuse and other crimes will now have first and complete access to security camera footage taken by cameras paid for with state money.

It those haredi rabbis, rabbis who ruled that only they could determine if allegations of child sexual abuse should be reported to police or instead kept within the haredi community, who will now determine whether this security camera footage should be shared with police.

New York State is very corrupt. This sick arrangement paid for with public funds is another clear proof of that statement.

Comments

[Hbshmoe]

What an odd spin. Even one as cynical as you have become must realize the absurdity of this portrayal. If not, it isn't worth elaborating.

[Stanley]

Hopefully with the installed cameras in Boro Park anti-Semitic incidents will be kept to a minimum and its residents will have less crime to deal with. A most worthy addition!

[Jeff]

The really sick thing is that the rabbis who've insisted upon this arrangement truly believe it's divinely ordained - it's the obligation of a gentile to keep order in the world, a Jew to perform mitzvot and the rabbis to oversee and control it all.

It's like a perverted recreation of medieval feudalism, with the rabbis occupying the role of the nobility.

[jancsibacsi]

jeff--You are brilliant perfectly describing the world of the omnipotent rabbis and their subject fools,the goilems who blindly follow theese power hungary rebbes.

[dh]

They're not rabbis. They're rulers and tyrants. But that still doesn't trump a warrant, which the DA can get... oh, wait... never mind.

[yehudis]

Hikind said after a significant crime the NYC Police Dept would have to make a formal request to have access to the cameras. Something isn't "kosher".

[yehudis]

In today's Journal News there is an article about a man from Lakewood that came to visit his father in Monsey for the holidays. He went into the nursing home, Thursday night, on Maple Avenue, befriended a 31 year old woman in a wheelchair and then proceeded to grope her. He was caught the next day by an alert policeman. If it happened under the watchful eye of the cameras I wonder what would've happened.

[Mark]

The cameras are on private property. I'm fine with not giving the government carte blanche surveillance access. The effect of the grant is that it encourages wide-spread and and comprehensive participation. I have little doubt that if another kid goes missing there won't be a huge team effort like we saw with Leiby Kletsky. The fact is,it was the unstoppable perseverance of one man (Mr German) who helped crack the case in a timely manner, ultimately leading to witnesses who alerted authorities so that they came face to face with the killer and some gruesome evidence. Mr German did this with the help of business surveillance.

[Stan James]

Welcome to right wing religion. Same problem with so. Baptists, catholic church etc

I've read / heard in several places that boys being raped in some islamic countries is their equivalent of confirmation or bah mitzvah

People who think they speak for god - it goes to their head

wwww.bishopaccountability.org

www.stopbaptist predators.org

[Barry]

These cameras are intended to divert attention from the major contributing factor in this child's murder and that is the gross incompetence in the running of the Boyan summer camp.

No 8 year old child should ever be left to go home alone and the camp should employ sufficient competent adults to ensure child safety. Who allowed this child to leave? Was it a 14 year old girl left in charge of two dozen kids? Was the camp understaffed because much of the sums raised in attendance fees from chassidic parents were diverted to the Rebbe's Swiss bank account? Cameras will not give you these answers but will give false comfort instead of addressing Hareidi ignorance as to basic child safety protocols and procedures.

[Mark]

Barry,

Unfortunately, the ignorance is so pervasive, the lack of real safety will never change. Btw it's doubtful anyone is getting rich off of the camp.

[MonseyLuke]

"The cameras are on private property. I'm fine with not giving the government carte blanche surveillance access."

Great. Private property, no public funds! Problem solved.

Luke.

[SkepticalYid]

Wanna bet that these cameras will be used mainly as tsnius surveillance and extortion?