Rabbi Shmuel Krawatsky: Jewish Child Molester
Rabbi Shmuel Krawatsky – an Orthodox Rabbi from Baltimore/Maryland - has finally been convicted of homosexual child molestation after a lengthy sage of legal suits and countersuits between Rabbi Krawatsky and the parents of his young victims.
To quote the ‘Jewish Daily Forward’:
‘Six years after a bombshell report revealed sexual abuse accusations against a beloved Orthodox rabbi, a jury will decide whether the claims have merit — or whether the families who brought them are liable for defamation.
Rabbi Steven (Shmuel) Krawatsky worked in Jewish education, mostly in the Baltimore area, for two decades before the families of three boys accused him of abusing their sons in 2014 and 2015. They said he abused the boys when he worked at Camp Shoresh, an Orthodox summer camp in Western Maryland.
When New York Jewish Week reported the claims against Krawatsky in 2018, the rabbi sued the publication, the families and a former journalist who warned the public to stay away from him on Facebook. A judge dismissed Krawatsky’s claims against the Jewish Week in 2022, and last week threw out the families’ counterclaims against Camp Shoresh and its director, Rabbi David Finkelstein.’
According to court documents, accusations of abuse were first made against Krawatsky in August 2015, by a Camp Shoresh parent whose then-8-year-old child, identified only as B.A., said the rabbi had touched him inappropriately that summer. Further allegations were made later by two other campers, then 7 years old, one of whom said Krawatsky raped him, the other saying Krawatsky offered him $100 to touch his penis.
Maryland Child Protective Services investigators found that in two of the allegations, child abuse was “indicated” and in the third, abuse was “unsubstantiated” — a legal designation that means neither confirmed nor ruled out, but which adds the accused to a confidential database for five years. However, protective services later downgraded the two “indicated” determinations to “unsubstantiated” in exchange for Krawatsky dropping his appeal.
According to Krawatsky’s defamation suit, he voluntarily submitted to a polygraph examination by the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office in September 2015, following the accusations from B.A., and the polygraph showed no deception. The Sheriff’s Office in December 2015 declined to press charges. The families of the victims say they have been unable to review the polygraph examination.
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The accusations did not come to light publicly until the 2018 Jewish Week article. It described not only the alleged abuses — which included oral and anal rape — but also accusations that camp leaders failed to respond as legally required, and that Maryland child protective services had botched the investigation. Following the article’s publication, Beth Tfiloh fired Krawatsky, and Suburban Orthodox Toras Chaim announced his resignation.
But the backlash against the families has continued since then, including public death threats, Lovy said.
“Their lives have been turned upside down,” he said.’ (1)
Notice that there has been a substantial attempt by the local Orthodox jewish community to get Rabbi Krawatsky’s to shut up and ‘be quiet’. This is par the course for jewish community figures who sexually molest children since their fellow jews – usually senior Rabbis – often do this since they regard those who tell non-jewish authorities as ‘informers’ (i.e., traitors to jewry) and do everything they can to intimidate and smear them into silence. (2)
Yet despite subsequently being convicted; (3) Rabbi Krawatsky has inexplicably received absolutely minimal damages to pay to the parents with $8,000 per child and another $1 as ‘compensation’.
As the JTA article explains:
‘The multiyear case came about after Rabbi Shmuel Krawatsky sued three of his reported victims and others in 2018 for defamation after their accusations were published in the New York Jewish Week. All three then countersued, claiming assault and battery.
In its Feb. 22 decision, the state court jury awarded damages to two of the victims. The jury did not find for the family of the third child who said he was abused.
The claims stem from Krawatsky’s time as a senior counselor at Camp Shoresh, an Orthodox Jewish summer camp in Maryland. Each of the two plaintiffs was awarded $8,000 in punitive damages and another $1 in compensatory damages, in one case for assault and in another for battery. Two of the three accusers said Krawatsky raped them.’ (4)
Just $8,000 for having your child sodomized by a Rabbi?
Compare that to the hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of dollars paid out per victim by the Roman Catholic Church in the United States alone (5) and we can quickly see that not only has the Orthodox jewish community been attacking and attempting to get to the parents of the boys sodomized by Rabbi Krawatsky, but that they also appear to have gotten to the judge and the jury in some way or another.
After all, how else are we to explain this massive discrepancy between the awards?
Just another instance of the jewish community exercising its considerable power and influence on behalf of its disgraced members.
Remember this example the next time a jew wants to talk about Christian clergy raping children.
References
(1) https://forward.com/fast-forward/579915/steven-krawatsky-sex-abuse-trial/
(2) See Isaac Schechter, 2011, ‘Sexual Abuse in the Religion Community: Systems, Experience and Repair’, pp. 304-330 in David Mandel, David Pelcovitz (Eds.), 2011, ‘Breaking the Silence: Sexual Abuse in the Jewish Community’, 1st Edition, Ktav: New York; Michael Lesher, 2014, ‘Sexual Abuse, Shonda and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities’, 1st Edition, McFarland: Jefferson, pp. 170-187
(3) https://www.jta.org/2024/02/26/united-states/baltimore-rabbi-found-liable-for-sexually-abusing-2-children-at-jewish-summer-camp; https://www.thejc.com/news/usa/rabbi-sexually-assaulted-children-at-jewish-summer-camp-xfvyfy96; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13114183/Baltimore-rabbi-accused-child-sex-abuse.html
(4) Ibid.
(5) See for example: https://www.expertinstitute.com/resources/insights/rochester-jury-awards-95-million-for-priest-sexual-abuse-40-years-ago/; https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/catholic-diocese-agrees-pay-100-million-settlement-hundreds-abuse-vict-rcna96904; https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/04/us/catholic-church-300-million-abuse-claims/index.html; https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/vatican-abuse-summit-22-billion-and-100000-victims-us-alone