Gershon Selinger: Jewish Child Molester
The world of jewish news has been a buzz with yet another jewish child molester who has been convicted of raping very young children. The jew in question is a member of the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic world named Gershon Selinger.
To quote Luke Tress’ article which has been widely republished across the jewish world in both Israeli and Diaspora publications:
‘A convicted sex offender who gained widespread attention for speaking publicly about his crimes with a Hasidic comedian last year has pleaded guilty to new abuse allegations that surfaced as a result of the interview.
Gershon Selinger, 41, pleaded guilty in Dutchess County Court on Wednesday to the felony of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor under the age of 11, according to court records. The incident occurred in 2008. Selinger was taken into custody after the hearing and will be sentenced in March.
The plea deal will see Selinger serve five years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release, according to public defender Seth Gallagher, his defense attorney. Gallagher declined to give any further comment.’ (1)
We also learn that:
‘In 2015, Selinger was convicted in a Brooklyn court of abusing a 6-year-old, also in 2008, and was sentenced to 10 years probation, according to public records.’ (2)
Selinger has been typically treated lightly by the courts in New York because of his plea deal despite being a routine offender by the looks of things and also because one suspects that the courts are very sensitive to the problem of rampant child molestation among the ultra-Orthodox jewish community in particular. (3) This is because the ultra-Orthodox jewish community are extremely politically powerful in New York (they have their own special police force for example) and like to keep stories of child molestation by their members under wraps as much as possible. (4)
Compare that to the Roman Catholic Church which routinely gets dragged through the mud – sometimes justifiably and sometimes not – because of what of its clergy have done or tried to cover up by the courts and the media, while jews get a free pass and their misdeeds largely covered up or kept within the confines of their own media without much interest from the wider mainstream media.
I wonder why?
References
(1) https://www.timesofisrael.com/sex-offender-pleads-guilty-to-new-charges-after-interview-with-hasidic-comedian/ ; also https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-780886 and https://forward.com/fast-forward/575180/sex-offender-who-gave-high-profile-interview-to-hasidic-comedian-pleads-guilty-to-new-charges/ ; https://www.jta.org/2024/01/04/ny/sex-offender-who-gave-high-profile-interview-to-hasidic-comedian-pleads-guilty-to-new-charges
(2) Ibid.
(3) The frightening scale of the problem is discussed by Michael Lesher, 2014, ‘Sexual Abuse, Shonda and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities’, 1st Edition, McFarland: Jefferson, pp. 33-52 and implied by David Mandel, 2011, ‘A Communal Safety Plan to Respond to Sexual Abuse’, pp. 97-117 in David Mandel, David Pelcovitz, 2011, ‘Breaking the Silence: Sexual Abuse in the Jewish Community’, 1st Edition, Ktav: New York
(4) Lesher, Op. Cit., pp. 11; 18-19; 94-109