The Haredi Sex Abuse Crackdown That Wasn’t

Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thompson ran on the promise that he’d clean up the office’s problems with prosecuting ultra-Orthodox sex offenders who preyed on children—but so far he appears just as lax as his predecessor.

 Above: Ken Thompson

Emily Shire reports in the Daily Beast:

…“As bad as Hynes was and as bad as that office was, they were making some attempts to investigate what happened,” Kellner’s lawyer, Niall MacGiollabhui, tells The Daily Beast. “Once Thompson came in, the idea of investigating what led to my client's arrest ended, even though they admitted criminal behavior led to my client being framed. This DA is doing nothing to investigate and prosecute [those] who blatantly obstructed justice and intimidated victims.” When asked about the knowledge of Kellner being framed, the Brooklyn DA told The Daily Beast it is the “policy of the District Attorney’s office not to confirm or deny investigations.”

For activists, the alleged failure to investigate the evidence presented against Kellner perpetuates the dangerous message in the ultra-Orthodox community that whistleblowers will be severely punished. “How do you count against fabricated evidence being given to law enforcement and the DA to destroy someone's life? That's not a minor offense,” says Shmarya Rosenberg, the man behind the blog Failed Messiah, which exposes corruption and abuse in the ultra-Orthodox community. “Thompson will say 'we're investigating'. Fuck you! You have all the information. It's out there. There's no question what happened. The only question is, why is Thompson taking so long? Why is there no prosecution?”…

Read it all here.

Comments

[Milhouse]

Grow a spine Kenneth.

[Deremes]

So it goes like this: when a haredi person is prosecuted and sent to prison in many cases haredim will scream "antisemitism an unjust system" and in many cases they are correct.But FM will explain how stupid haredim are how they don't understand how the system works.
But when the system refuses to prosecuted haredim FM refuses to understand.Very interesting.

[MarkfromShortHills]

Deremes, you and your ilk are full of shit. Haredim are the scum of the earth and only their political cohesion saves them from the consequences of their piggish conduct.

[chicken swinging is pagan]

FM does a great service showing how oily, sneaky and lying the Haredim can be. so it should only help in the court room.

[jancsibacsi]

MarkfromShortHills--Right on mark you tell it as is,you are 100 per cent correct every word you wrote is the truth.

[Deremes]

MarkfromShortHills, explain "Haredim are the scum of the earth". do you mean scum as in Bin Laden,mohamed atta,Isis,Sammy the bull,etc. To use this term on fellow Jews one must have a mental illness.
Or perhpas you not even Jewish just a vile antisemith who is taking advantage of this site to attack Jews.

[kjdude]

Deremes- Why are you arguing with these brain dead trolls? You pointed out a inconsistency here, what was his response? Did it make sense to you? He's a stupid short brained dummy and yet you're arguing with him! Just smile and move on...

[Rocky]

The new DA learned to count block votes, just like the old DA did. I suspect that most New Yorkers don't care what the Haredi do within their own community, from swinging chickens to performing MBP on 8 day old boys.

[mike]

Shmarya was the one pushing Thompson....
Well, well, well
Let's see how he deals with crimes commited by blacks?
He is beholden to them since the voted him into office

[mike]

Janci,
If the Chareidim are so terrible, why do choose to live in their midst?
Jackass. Are you sure you are not one of those Eastern European gypsies, who like living near the Jews?
Zoineh

[mike]

Mark, the snob from Short Hills,
You are a lowlife scumbag AND Jewish anti semite.Cretins like you make me puke.Sickening bastard

[dh]

Tsk, tsk, Shmarya, such language. I'm sending you The Pnina Feldman Dick-shun-airy of Modern Insult post haste. No more mass media swearing.

[jancsibacsi]

mike- Brain damaged idiot that you are i dont hate all of them but there are a percentage among them that are making it terrible for the rest and those are the ones i hate,

[mike]

Janci
Dumbass illiterate zoineh,
The snob from Short Hills cursed out all Chareidim and you the scumbag that you are agreed with him 100%.Don't start saying it's "only" a percentage.
Gai in alleh ruches, farikteh tziganeh

[jancsibacsi]

mike--Dumbass reatard that you are your limited brain capacity shows,you are dead wrong its not all hassidim only those that are repugnant like you you animal lowlife trash that you are.

[jancsibacsi]

mike--Forgot,kensteh paigeren shoin.

[Jeff]

"Why are you arguing with these brain dead trolls?"

You keep saying this, and you don't seem to understand what it means. YOU'RE the trolls. A troll is someone, generally unwelcome, whose purpose is to incite or inflame. Those who support the site owner cannot, by definition, be trolls.

Back to business: WHY ARE YOU HERE?

[Joe Field]

Deremes,
You misunderstanding or don’t have the capacity to understand, a DA could easily go rogue and we know that the previous DA might one day be a welcome guest in prison. I am really disappointed in your lack of critical thinking abilities. Stop blaming Shmarya for your deficiencies.

[kjdude]

Sorry about that Jeff. I define troll as someone who spends most of his time online writing hateful comments about people more succesfull than he will ever be, who don't give a hoot what he thinks about them. I think that someone who think he found a clever question and repeats it like a dumb robot is a troll. I think that an inadequate little man who doesn't understand anything, yet needs tofell important by imparting his "wisdom" on an uncaring world is a troll and a brain dead one at that. But I guess I was wrong... Sorry, little man. Now toddle off....

[jancsibacsi]

kjdude--Sounds like you are describing youreself:).

[kjdude]

Good one jancsi, as usual u Hungarian genius...

[SkepticalYid]

It's not particularly surprising. Haredim often vote as a bloc. Thompson wants to be re-elected. So he lets the Rabbinate impose their own version of Sharia on their communities. Brooklyn has long been politically corrupt. It's just part of the mesorah he inherited.

[jancsibacsi]

kjdude--First i am not hungarian since i never lived in hungary,second i am not a genious just an average shmo like the rest of us.:)

[Jeff]

"I think that someone who think he found a clever question and repeats it like a dumb robot is a troll."

I don't think I'm being clever. I'm asking a straightforward question, which you and your fellow trolls refuse to answer.

WHY ARE YOU HERE?

[jancsibacsi]

jeff---Not one of the trolls can bring himself to answer your question as to why they are here,they became mutes since your question tottaly defeats them.

[MarkfromShortHills]

Deremes: yes, I mean scum like Bin Laden etc. The only difference between haredi scum and the Bin Laden type of scum is that the haredi scum (pedophiles, thieves of all sorts, gangsters who shock people with cattle prods, landlords who destroy apartments rented by people with low rents, etc. etc. etc.) mostly operate below the radar. You are all filth and the world would be better if you were not in it.
KJDude: he did not point out an inconsistency, but rather blathered a non-sequitur.
Mike: Ha ha, Mikey baby. You are worthless ignorant shit and everyone here knows it. Including you.

[kjdude]

You know why Jeff? Because we're afraid of the truth. In the back of our minds, nay in our subconscious, we are terrified that maybe you are right. Maybe the fact that Square has separate voting booths, the DA refuses to prosecute us, and some Australian fighting will p49ve that we have been lied to all those years by the holy rabbis. Maybe the fact that Rubashkin is rotting in jail, and East Ramapo children don't have their precious sports and music classes, will cause us to throw away our kipot. Maybe the fact that pinto broke his parole will make us leave for good. That's why we are terrified of your deep soul-searchimg question.... that's why we cannot, nay dare not, answer your question... But you should keep on asking. After all, its such a great point you're making with it... Clown! LOL

[kjdude]

Once more Markfromshorthills, brilliant retort as usual. This site attracts the absolute class of the secular Jewish community...

[jancsibacsi]

kjdude---You ARE AN KJ IMPOSTER, NO KJ DUDE HAS THE CAPACITY TO WRITE OR EXPRESS HIMSELF AS WELL AS YOU DO SO I SAY YOU ARE A PAID MEESENGER FROM THAT HELL WHOLE CALLED KJ.

[kjdude]

Jancsi you caught on, you got me. The kj leadership is so worried about the FM commenters that they hired me for top dollar to come and laugh at the Hungarians on here. I'm getting rich now, sucker... lol!!!

[dh]

You guys are a beleagured Knock-Knock joke.

[jancsibacsi]

kjdude--Who said anything about being paid top dollar thats your imagination,i just wrote to you that i never lived in hungary so why do you keep mentioning me being hungarian?.

[Jeff]

"You know why Jeff? Because we're afraid of the truth. In the back of our minds, nay in our subconscious, we are terrified that maybe you are right."

This is the first time, in all of the years I've been participating on this site, that one of you has spoken the truth. Of course, you're too delusional to understand this.

The irony is overwhelming.

[Jeff]

jansci, I suspect kjdude is a bored adolescent or yeshiva bochur in his twenties (which would account for the continual sarcasm and constant use of terms like "sucker"). He may have some native intelligence, and he obviously has access to the Internet, so he might have taught himself how to write coherently and he could have picked up a few concepts like "subconscious".

[kjdude]

Jeff I agree that only bored adolescents should be commenting here. I'm embarrassed to be commenting here regularly.....

[jancsibacsi]

kjdude--iT LOOKS LIKE FOR YOU GUYS EVERYDAY OF THE YEAR IS PURIMEVERYTHING IS A BIG JOKE.

[Jeff]

"Jeff I agree that only bored adolescents should be commenting here. I'm embarrassed to be commenting here regularly..... "

Yet here you are, refusing to honestly answer a simple question.

The bottom line is that Shamrya is right. Despite the growing numbers you people keep touting, your world is collapsing, succumbing to pressure from without and deteriorating from within. You can no longer support your irresponsibly growing numbers and refuse to educate your children in a manner that would make it possible for them to function outside of your cloistered, xenophobic, paranoid subculture. However, there is the forbidden Internet, which is giving them access to previously unavailable information, and as they grow increasingly dissatisfied, they're leaving. It's a trickle now, but it will increase. This terrifies your rebbaim. You think they really care about pornography?

You have a generation left at most. Even your leaders are beginning to realize it, and will acknowledge it in unguarded moments. You will live to see your children probably, your grandchildren certainly, disavow everything you've been taught to believe as absolute truth. You will live to see the utter collapse of your way of life into a chaotic, fragmented mess.

Unfortunately, none of this prevents you from doing those around you a great deal of harm in the meantime.

[kjdude]

Jeff I know this hurts to contemplate but we as a community arent going anywhere. Our exploding population, cohesion, and smarts ensures our survival just as it kept us going for 1000 years in the darkest times of the medieval and dark ages. In America the beautiful and free, without persecution, we can only continue growing and succeeding. There will be Teitelbaums and Halberstams leading the Hasidic communities for many long generations after you are all rotting in the ground. As Mark Twain famously said "all things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass but he remains." You will assimilate and fade like the Assyrians and Babylonians, but the Black hatted mob will always be around to imfuriate Jews like yourselves who deny their identity...

Lol! Lmao!

[jancsibacsi]

kjdude--The chillel hashem those black hatters cause is the downfall of us all,the nonjews have no respect for us because of the chillel hashem everyday we hear about, so you can gloat as as much as you want, but you demean everyone else including youreself.

[Jeff]

Of course. Just keep telling yourself that as you fade into oblivion.

By the way, the Christian fundamentalists do the same thing you do. Like you, they think if they punctuate a comment with "LOL!" or "LMAO", that somehow makes it true.

Do your parents know you spend this much time online, "dude"?

[kjdude]

Ooh Jeff please don't tell my parents....

Now let me go rip someone off before fading... lol!

You see, people, the old generation like Jeff have already failed in life and have lost hope. To them "lol" is a slap in the face. But younger people like to laugh at the sad inconsistencies and failures of the old and withered, hence "lol" and "lmao"...

[SkepticalYid]

Posted by: kjdude | October 08, 2014 at 12:06 PM

Nah, failure is being a welfare leech in KJ or NS. Admittedly, it's hard to believe that anyone who's a KJ Chosid would show such generalized disrespect to his elders. So ttfn and gfy!