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In 2015, the FBI arrested and charged New Jersey- based therapist Elliot Halberstam with three counts of sexual enticement and exploitation of a minor and receipt of child pornography. The arrest was widely reported at the time.
The charges alleged that Halberstam had groomed one of his clients, then a 16 year old boy, who he had been seeing since 2011. He manipulated the boy who had hopes of becoming a model, and created a fake email address to convince the boy that he was in fact a lawyer who would help him break into the modeling industry. He coerced the boy to engage in sexually explicit behaviors with him, which he sometimes filmed in a hotel room he had rented. He also coerced the victim to send him pornographic images and videos from the victim.
In July 2018, Halberstam pled guilty to coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
On February 28, 2019, Halberstam was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
This is bad news.
ReplyDeleteBut you know what else is bad news? When a teenager goes to a "therapist" to express his feelings and the "therapist" helps guide his "client" into giving in to the "client's" Evil Inclination leading the client to violate many Laws of G-d, but staying well within the laws of man.
For example: a boy says he "thinks" he's "gay". And the therapist urges the boy to explore his feelings which leads to the boy experimenting with relationships forbidden by G-d.
How many times is a "therapist" involved in breaking up a marriage that did not have to end? I have spoken to Orthodox Jews who do sins and they tell me about it with an all knowing voice, adding they talked it over with their supposedly neutral therapist.
When did the mental health profession usurp the Mesorah? Answer: when many congregational Rabbis became pimps for the psychiatrists, punting their congregants onto the shrinks' couches.
עי' בשו"ת אגרות משה (יו"ד ח"ב, סי' נז) בדבר חולי רוח ומחשבות שצריכים לילך לרופאים פסיכאלאגיסטן סארקאיעטיסטן, אם רשאים לילך לאלו שהן מינים וכופרים, לענ"ד אין לילך אל רופאים כאלו להתרפאות, כי מכיון שאין הרפואות מסמים המרפאים, אלא מרוב הדבורים שלהם עם החולה נודעים מאיזה מחשבות הוא סובל ומיעצים לו איך להתנהג, שודאי יש לחוש שמיעצים לפעמים נגד דיני התורה, ואף נגד עיקרי הדת, ונגד עניני פרישות וצניעות. ע"ש.
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