Haredi Rabbi Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison For Child Sex Abuse

The Nazareth District Court sentenced a haredi rabbi from Afula to nine years in prison today for sexually abusing four teens. He represented the sex to the teens as being ordered by God and as being a mystical cure for various problems they had.

 Above: Rabbi Yaakov Deutsch

Haredi Rabbi Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison For Child Sex Abuse
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

The Nazareth District Court sentenced a haredi rabbi from Afula to nine years in prison today for sexually abusing four teens, Arutz Sheva reported.

Rabbi Yaakov Deutsch sexually abused two teen boys and two teen girls, all of them his students.

Besides a prison term, Deutsch was also ordered to pay a 290,000 shekel ($75,895) in compensation and was sentenced to two years probation to be served after his release.

Deutsch represented the sex to the teens as being ordered by God and as being a mystical cure for various problems they had.

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Comments

[jancsibacsi]

This guy looks like he could of been a gadol hador,instead he is a degenerate.

[Jay]

jancsibacsi
How can someone that looks charedi, look like a gadol hador?

[franklopez]

@jancsibacsi

are you for real??? "LOOKS" WTF has that got anything to do with this pig

[percherondad]

Too bad the skunk didn't get the death penalty

[a good jew]

This man is sick sick,,dangerous for society,,he is a dangerous pedophile,,he belongs locked up for the rest of his life,,he is a child molester,,he is a rapist,,a dangerous sicko,,

[Bas Melech]

How are his cell mates going to treat him?

[Jay]

I hear there going to practice Bris Milah on him in prison.

[jancsibacsi]

I am mocking the gadols since the apple doesn't fall far from its tree,dont you guys get it?

[jancsibacsi]

Since all jews are rsponsible for one another as the saying goes hareivim i am holding responsible all those who are in charge especially the rabunim,the fish stinks from its head.

[a good jew]

When his cellmates are going to bite off his penis they will tell him that it was ordered by God,?, blame god

[Mb]

I love it, these are all signs that their world is slowly crumbling

[Rebitzman]

9 years for 6 children.......

I would have though 9 years PER child (run consecutively) would have been more in line.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

so many stupid idiots? unbelievable & very saddening.

[Elliot]

Yosef,
As long as there are people teaching their children that rabbis are on "a higher madreiga" than the little people, are beyond questioning, and speak for G-d Himself, there will be frum victims of abuse.

[Amos]

Elliot I daven in hareidi circles and I do not see this pope like attitude being taught. Certain adults have access to kids. In religious circles that includes Rabbis.

To me, the greater issue is that religion has become superficial and fear of heaven is fraudulent. People's minds are compartamentalized. That's to me initially what is "special" about abuse by Rabbis. They are supposed to be answering a calling, dedicated to holy works. How can they be hypocrites? And where are the protective fences? Let all meetings be in public places.

[a good jew]

Elliot you got a big mistake,,I learned my children that a big beard means nothing,,(( zero )) you can not trust nobody not even your own family members,,not a grand father,//uncle// cousins// nobody,,?? You don't walk or go to a strangers car even that person is going with a long beard and is asking you directions,?, I learned my children about their own private parts,, my children are educated by today,?, believe me??

[Most Concerned]

Shmarya
I wonder if you could please inform me what the ratio is with regards to Ultra orthodox pedofiles versus non-orthodox pedofiles. I know you report on the orthodox Charadi community, possibly I'm off the mark, but it seems to me that sexual abuse is more rampant in the orthodox community. I haven't seen reports on sexual abuse by non Orthodox Jews. If that is indeed the case, could you give me your opinion why that is so. Thank you

[Shmarya]

There aren't good statistics because the haredi community won't cooperate in gathering them on one hand and most governments do not collect statistics based on religious belief.

That said, as many people have noted, the haredi community has a lot of children, proportionally much fewer adults, a lax attitude toward child safety and the propensity not to report crimes like child sexual abuse to police. That makes it a fertile breeding ground for pedophiles.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

Yimach shmeuy.

[Elliot]

Amos,
I speak from experience. Refusing to refer to someone in the second person. Yeshiva classmates saying, "You can't say that! He's a RAV!" Turns out said Rav was an enabler in the end.

[Most Concerned]

I asked this Shamarya because I have observed that in our relatively small Jewish community in Australia that there have been past circumstances of sexual abuse in two prominent orthodox schools, whereas there hasn't been any reports (that I'm aware of) in the equally prominent number of non-orthodox schools or in the general community as a whole. I was wondering whether in the United States where the Jewish community is by far larger, if the same curcumstances exits.

[Rebitzman]

@Most Concerned

The more liberal branches of Judaism have their predators as well, and while they are a lot faster in dealing with these creeps than are their brethren to the right, they are by no means perfect. I think (and by no means - do I have anything resembling "proof") that we inherently want to believe that our leaders are good people. The higher the belief (and the sense that they are somehow infallible) the longer the timeline before their behavior will put them at odds with the community. Keep in mind, pedophiles and other kinds of sexual predators tend to pick their victims (and there is evidence here) to a certain degree based on the likelihood that any claims made will be dismissed due to their social status or previous issues.

[Yosef]

How old were the children and what were the ailments? (In Oregon the age of medical consent, including for transgender surgery without parental consent is 15 years.

Was he married? How was he found out? Did the Rav daven with a minyan, say asher yatzar and wash his hands after the deeds before touching a Holy book, strictly stick to only Minhadrin kosher? How did he justify the hypocrisy as other than criminally active yetzer hora he could not control. What went wrong? He should have a court ordered Psychiatrist or Psychologist during and after release. Even in the secular world people can live double lives. But we do have a double standard for Orthodox Rabbis.

[Jessica40]

There are much rarer occasions in the US of a Conservative or Reform Rabbi being involved in sexual abuse cases. I've heard of one case of a Conservative cantor being accused of a sexual relation with a teenage boy and he was forced to resign.

It happens less often in any community where people can be open about their sexuality and everyone is treated as an equal. For the same reason, the Catholic Church will always have a problem with sexual abuse as long as it holds unnatural views on sexuality and requires it's priests to be celibate.

Using the microcosm of the Washington DC Jewish community as an example, we can see what happened to 2 Rabbis who had a sexuality crisis and how the 2 results came out. Just a week before Fatso Freundel was arrested for his perversion, the male Rabbi at the largest Conservative synagogue in DC, who was married with 3 children, announced that he was gay and divorcing his wife, who is also a Rabbi at another synagogue. The news was completely drowned out by Freundel's arrest a week later. However, he remains at his position and while it was shocking to the community, nothing illicit or untoward ever resulted from this personal crisis. That's because he could come out and be honest about his personal situation and sexuality. In an Orthodox community where people have unnatural and unrealistic expectations and sexual practices, Freundel happens because rather than divorcing and seeking sexual satisfaction openly, he resorts to subversion and sadism because he believes he either is superior to others or must be seen as being so.

This is true of any community with customs of inequality and repression, not just the Jewish community.

[n ' Aron]

Janci he is an incarnation of the schoichet that molested you. Look at him doesn't he remind you of him.
You opgeflikter ferd. The Catholic ok rests that Mosel also look holier than thou. So what.

[dapper danny]

Can anyone translate this for me please:

"The Catholic ok rests that Mosel also look holier than thou. So what."

[Amos]

Jessica40, would you agree that control of one's sexuality was realistic until the 1960s? Didn't people make do with what they had, accept their circumstances, accept injustices, work hard just to stay afloat? Wasn't it happiness just to stay alive and healthy - even if one couldn't live out fantasies and satisfy his every passion and whim? I am struggling with whether you're capitulating to today's moral laxity. I'm not as ready as you to say that taking the high road is a recipe to perversion. Or whether one can fight off laxity with a more holistic and community wide old fashioned approach to things. And a true fear of heaven.

[Amos]

PS if it is OK to be open about sexuality, then should one pick on a person's body shape. Should one be consistent and let him be free to eat what he wants and be free to satisfy his bodily urges that way as well. If we can shame fat people we can shame people for not keeping their pants on when married with kids.

[Jessica40]

"Jessica40, would you agree that control of one's sexuality was realistic until the 1960s?"

So what exactly are you saying? That before the 1960's there were no gay people and there were no sex abusers or child molesters and then suddenly when the Beatles came to America it all went to hell?

All of these things existed before the "60's" people just didn't talk about and there was no way to report it. Your comment is absurd. There have been literally thousands of people come forward and talk about their experiences being molested as children, being coerced into having sex with their bosses, being gay before the "60's".

That's exactly my point. These communities, including but not limited to the Orthodox, want to live in a 19th century social structure and would be happy to sweep all these incidents under the rug. However, they bump up against the modern world which doesn't tolerate it.

You should hook up with Ahmadinejad. He thinks there are no gay people in Iran because he doesn't see them. Sounds like you two would be good friends.

[Heblew]

You are all a bunch of sickos and perverts. Rabbi Deutsch delivered a divine message of love to his students. He has shown that he is gender neutral, molesting an equal number of boys and girls. Finally, he has willingly paid a sum of money which he extorted from his followers to sanctify his perverse pedaphilic sex acts.

[Lo K'darkah]

"...the male Rabbi at the largest Conservative synagogue in DC, who was married with 3 children, announced that he was gay and divorcing his wife, who is also a Rabbi at another synagogue."

You see? Once you start learning gemora with Steinsaltz, anything can happen...

[Amos]

Jessica, I now understand you are saying rules around sexuality were never realistic, and so must have led to abuse in all eras. You are saying that liberating people - perhaps allowing them multiple partners, partners of the same gender - saves them from having to force relations on others. Does the relaxed atmostphere leads to a supercharged sexual desire, "consent" that is essentially brainwashed into women, who are also brainwashed into walking around half naked while the men have the luxury of covering up, the spread of disease. And with the supercharged sexuality and drinking, you have many cases of abuse, rape, e.g., on school campuses. I don't see why you want to erode old fashioned values with this idea that we are better off. How are we better off? Is it that detection of a persistent problem is now more efficient. If that is all it is, what's wrong with expecting oneself to marry a person of the opposite gender and stay devoted to them?

[Love.jews]

Most concerned... The reason you think there are more cases in frum community is because this blogger is anti frum people so every time there's a story he goes wild.

[Jessica40]

"The reason you think there are more cases in frum community is because this blogger is anti frum people so every time there's a story he goes wild."

That would be a good argument except that you then need to provide links to an equal number of cases in non-Orthodox Jewish communities to prove it. But you can't, can you?

[jimmy]

Why would anyone think that human brains are wired differently?
Whatever brain chemistry makes an adult attracted to children does the same to all human beings.
Could there be some minor cultural differences, maybe.Maybe some genetic differences?
Could people who have such tendencies not act upon them? Most probably.
So I believe that to answer the questioner in Australia, you have just as many pedophiles in other places.The reason you have not heard reports are because there is no one blog that is focusing on those people and they don't stand out in their dress.
In the United States you can see reports of all stripes of pedophiles from any community and ethinicity.
I do believe that pedophilc urges are a small percentage of the human race, but don't have any statistics.
Lastly, there are "technical" cases of pedophilia, which are a different category.For example some adolescents, especially women can appear to be adults though they are not.So someone having relations with a 16 year old woman,in states where it is below the age on consent, who looks like an adult would be legally a pedophile, but in reality would not be.The brain does not know an age, its knows a sexual maturity, some people appear as such, though they are not

[Jessica40]

Your argument that it isn't any more common in Orthodox circles belies facts about both this specific issue as well as sociology in general. Social structure absolutely influences both the type of crimes and frequency of crimes of all natures. For example, nobody can say that mass shootings don't happen far more frequently in the US than in any other country. This is absolutely because of our social structure which won't pass gun control laws. Does that mean it never happens in other countries? Of course it does, but much less frequently because it's much harder to access guns.

As far as sex abuse in the Orthodox community, first of all, we're not just talking about pedoephilia, it's all kinds of sex abuse. Let's go back to the example I gave before about the Rabbi at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington. He had these feelings of homosexuality that he felt he could no longer deny. If he were Orthodox and came out, he would have lost his job and community. He would have been much more likely to try to suppress it and then he runs a higher risk of ending up being arrested in the men's room at Union Station or preying on a minor under his tutelage to satisfy his desires because he would have felt it easier to control and manipulate the minor so that the rest of the community wouldn't find out.

We can't control feelings we have but societies are absolutely structured in ways that increase the likelihood of someone acting out in a negative or abusive way.

You are being disingenuous. I repeat my challenge to provide evidence of all the other cases in the non-Orthodox community. This blog may focus on Orthox but there are plenty of media outlets that don't. Let's see the reports.