The NY Daily news reports that he is a fugitive from justice for allegations of additional abuse crimes.
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Update See Jan 23 article in YNET
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update: Friday Jan 16
A convicted sex offender flees to Israel after alleged assault in Brooklyn synagogue
EXCLUSIVE: Police are prepared to arrest Yona Weinberg, 36, on a misdemeanor assault charge, records show. But since he's only facing a misdemeanor, authorities won’t be able to extradite him from Israel.
A convicted sex offender stood to be arrested after he allegedly assaulted an 11-year-old boy in a Brooklyn synagogue last summer.
But when police went to Yona Weinberg’s Flatbush home, they found he had fled to Israel.
Now, child advocates in the Jewish community are throwing up their hands, frustrated that the former bar mitzvah tutor and social worker was allowed to skip the country because prosecutors in the office of District Attorney Ken Thompson appeared to be slow to react.
“He’s making all of us who really campaigned hard for him look like fools,” activist Chaim Levin said of Thompson. “He seems to be playing politics. The outcome of this case is disgusting.”
Weinberg, 36, allegedly slammed the 11-year-old boy against a shelf of prayer books in the synagogue on Aug. 15, witnesses told police.
Police are prepared to arrest Weinberg on a misdemeanor assault charge, records show> [...]</
But since Weinberg is only facing a misdemeanor, authorities won’t be able to extradite him from Israel.
“In the event that he returns to New York, he will be charged,” said Lupe Todd, Thompson’s spokeswoman.
The synagogue scuffle occurred two months after the boy told cops he was “forced” to touch Weinberg’s shirt and pants, ostensibly to measure their size, a law enforcement source told the Daily News.[...]
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update: The Israeli police have been notified but they said unless there is an Interpol warrant or he commits a crime here there is nothing that they can do. Israel does not have a sex offenders list - once a person has served his sentence he is ignored - unless he commits another crime in Israel.
I am trying to get a copy of the arrest warrant in the latest case.
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He is now living in Har Nof Jerusalem 4 Agassi apartment 5 with his wife and 4 children a 9 year old daughter and triplets (2 girls and a boy age 7). His children are attending schools in Har Nof.
Please take the necessary steps to protect your children from this man - who is also alleged to be violent
update: his social worker license was revoked because of his conviction
New York State Sex Registry entry for Yona Weinberg
Offender I.D. # 32336
November 19, 2013
update: his social worker license was revoked because of his conviction
His Social Work License hearing (full document can be downloaded here: http://goo.gl/nXVguQ ) link here: http://www.op.nysed.gov/opd/feb11.htm :
Profession: Licensed Master Social Worker; Lic. No. 074545; Cal. No. 25259Regents Action Date: February 8, 2011Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct; Penalty: Revocation.Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having been convicted of Sexual Abuse in the 2nd Degree and Endangering the Welfare of a Child, both class A misdemeanors based on his sexual abuse of two adolescents.
New York State Sex Registry entry for Yona Weinberg
Offender I.D. # 32336
November 19, 2013
2009 - sentenced to 13 months in jail for molesting 2 boys he tutored for bar mitzva
In August 2009, the rows in a courtroom at State Supreme Court in Brooklyn were packed with rabbis, religious school principals and community leaders. Almost all were there in solidarity with Yona Weinberg, a bar mitzvah tutor and licensed social worker from Flatbush who had been convicted of molesting two boys under age 14.
Justice Guston L. Reichbach looked out with disapproval. He recalled testimony about how the boys had been kicked out of their schools or summer camps after bringing their cases, suggesting a “communal attitude that seeks to blame, indeed punish, victims.” And he noted that, of the 90 letters he had received praising Mr. Weinberg, not one displayed “any concern or any sympathy or even any acknowledgment for these young victims, which, frankly, I find shameful.”
“While the crimes the defendant stands convicted of are bad enough,” the judge said before sentencing Mr. Weinberg to 13 months in prison, “what is even more troubling to the court is a communal attitude that seems to impose greater opprobrium on the victims than the perpetrator.”
Fugitive? He isn't a fugitive. He served his time and was duly released as per the law.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like he was beat up very badly in prison.
ReplyDeleteHe is a fugitive - he went to Israel after new charges of sexual abuse were made against him. Allegedly beating up a child who threatened to report him to the police.
ReplyDeleteExtradition is not a quick process.
ReplyDeleteHe was out of jail when the new charges were made so he wasn't in custody.
Do you have any information contrary to what I have posted or are you just generating pilpul?
Extradition is not a quick process.
ReplyDeleteHe was out of jail when the new charges were made so he wasn't in custody.
Do you have any information contrary to what I have posted oar are you just generating pilpul?
Some general background info. Myths and Facts from the U.S. Dept. of Justice.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.csom.org/pubs/mythsfacts.html
Criminal charges are public information. So if he is being criminally charged on new charges, and there is an arrest warrant for him, this is all publicly available information.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't have that public information it would indicate there are no criminal charges filed against him other than for what he already completed his sentence for. Otherwise you should be able to provide the public information on pending criminal charges and an arrest warrant.
If that eye thing is something he obtained in prison, we can't blame him for jumping ship. However, he should be held to sex offender laws in Israel. His neighbors etc. deserve to be protected.
ReplyDeletePlease take the necessary steps to protect your children from this man - who is also alleged to be violent
ReplyDeleteApparently, not violent enough to protect himself in jail.
Daat Torah. Where is he alleged to be violent?? Was he violent with children?? Was he wont to explode while tutoring or counsuling?
In the latest incident he is alleged to have beaten up the kid who allegedly said he was going to report him
ReplyDelete"he kid who allegedly said he was going to report him"
ReplyDeleteReport him for what? What was the kid threatening to report him for before he allegedly got beaten up? Has the kid now reported him for the thing he threatened to report him for before being beaten?
how could someone have information contrary to what you wrote no one can prove that something did not happen. The burden of proof is upon you to show that there are new pending charges that no one seems to know about.
ReplyDeleteAnd while I would not be happy if you moved in next door to me, or even into my neighborhood I do realize that he has the right to start his life anew he served his time did everything that was required of him. That does not mean his neighbors should not be informed of his past to know to keep an eye out on him it just means he has a right to try to start living his life again.
The case, fully explained by the NY Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/convicted-sex-offender-fleas-israel-new-case-arises-article-1.2080425
ReplyDeleteHe started to "focus" on a 11 year old boy. "The synagogue scuffle occurred two months after the boy told cops he was “forced” to touch Weinberg’s shirt and pants" . The boy complained to parents/police, then "Weinberg, 36, allegedly slammed the 11-year-old boy against a shelf of prayer books in the synagogue on Aug. 15, witnesses told police."
Then, "Police went to Weinberg’s Flatbush home to arrest him a day later, but his wife said he was not home and referred him to an attorney. The next day, Weinberg was on a plane to Israel."
For more details, read the article.
What utter nonsense. Extradition is highly political and the most evil criminals have repeatedly high-tailed it to Israel knowing it's *unlikely they will get extradited and/or will take a really long time. An example: the serial pedophile Mondrowitz. The Israeli Supreme Court refused to extradite him.
ReplyDeleteThe pictures shown are mugshots, which are the pictures taken when a person is arrested. Those would be taken BEFORE the assailant goes to jail. Nice try.
ReplyDeleteWhy is catskills1 trying to invoke sympathy for someone who beats up and molests Jewish children?
ReplyDeleteThese look to be his sex offender registry shots. Do you have info that this did not happen in prison?
ReplyDeleteInjury to eye happened before ANY charges were filed against him. Yona fell slipped onto metal which hit him directly in the eye and blinded him R"L.
ReplyDeleteLook at the photos of him during his trial, a mere few months before reporting to prison, compared to the above prison photos. There is a significant deterioration in his condition.
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