That article always pisses me off.
What's striking to me is the total lack of any sense of wrong doing
I told this man, 'It's a sin before God, a mishkovzucher. What are you doing to this boy's soul? You're destroying this boy!' He had a sponge on a stick to clean his back, and he hit me across the face with it. 'How dare you interrupt me!' he said.
I mean, the fact that the guy isn't backing off in shame right away, trying at least to cover up and/or run away from what he did, just shows that he isn't wired like a normal person, he certainly doesn't perceive reality like most people do, needless to mention his relationship to "others"
It's almost as if he considers himself, and others of course, as totally different species. Like it's not a boy he's fucking, it would be an inflatable plastic doll instead it wouldn't make much of a difference obviously. But what do I know, maybe that sick fuck would have a serious "ethical" problems fucking an actual plastic doll instead... For god knows what twisted metaphysical reason. That wouldn't surprise me one bit
And the fact that it gets a pass, culturally speaking, is huge. I mean it's not happening in secret, you aren't dealing with a catholic priest ashamed of what he did and apologizing after getting caught here
Child sex abuse among catholics doesn't get a pass, that's something they really have a problem with in the church and the vast majority of catholics welcome the investigations and prosecutions, regardless of the outcomes for the institution which is already screwed up by those instances of child abuse
So it tells you a thing or two here
That rabbi in the article above is experiencing serious ostracization for calling out the abuses
When you police yourselves (JYC private police) things get swept under the rug it seems..
According to the article it's more than 50% of the boys who get the treatment in that "community"
Rabbi Rosenberg believes around half of young males in Brooklyn's Hasidic community—the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world—have been victims of sexual assault perpetrated by their elders. Ben Hirsch, director of Survivors for Justice, a Brooklyn organization that advocates for Orthodox sex abuse victims, thinks the real number is higher. "From anecdotal evidence, we're looking at over 50 percent. It has almost become a rite of passage."
But not only that, it's institutionalized, at the religious level, which implies a couple of things
Ultra-Orthodox Jews who speak out about these abuses are ruined and condemned to exile by their own community. Dr. Amy Neustein, a nonfundamentalist Orthodox Jewish sociologist and editor of Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals, told me the story of a series of Hasidic mothers in Brooklyn she got to know who complained that their children were being preyed on by their husbands.
In these cases, the accused men "very quickly and effectively engage the rabbis, the Orthodox politicians, and powerful Orthodox rabbis who donate handsomely to political clubs." The goal, she told me, is "to excise the mother from the child's life." Rabbinical courts cast the mothers aside, and the effects are permanent. The mother is "amputated." One woman befriended by Dr. Neustein, a music student at a college outside New York, lost contact with all six of her children, including an infant she was breastfeeding at the time of their separation.
It implies that they are doing it on purpose, and that it's not new
There's a purpose behind this practice, which I suspect is to rewire the brain of the child in a certain way, through sexual trauma
And I don't believe for a second, that this practice is strictly limited to so called "fundamentalist orthodoxes"... If authorities in Israel don't go after them it's for a reason, because of course they know
And then you have that guy in the OP, not seeing what's the moral problem here.... What are the odds?
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