Five Towns Jewish Times The horrifying saga of the Nechemya Weberman trial and the guilty
verdict on 59 or 60 of the consolidated counts has caught the attention
of the world.
If the allegations are true, as guilty verdicts tend to indicate, and
as the existence of 11 other victims too fearful to step forward
indicates, then what we have here is truly sickening.
We have a 12-year-old girl that did not quite meet the standards of
the community around her. The school officials refused to admit her back
into the school unless her parents pre-paid for therapy—to the tune of
$12,900.
And then she suffers three years of horrifying abuse at the hands of
the very “therapist” that the school had required her to meet with
regularly. Imagine the pain of such a girl who must endure the sickest
of acts—with the knowledge that no one would believe her if she told of
what was being done to her.
The Navi cries out, “Bagda Yehuda v’soaivah ne’esasa b’Yisrael!” Our
schools are named after our heilege imahos and avos. And the matriarch,
Mama Rachel, is crying now. Of that there is no doubt.
Our schools have handed over these precious souls to monsters for
abuse. And then, when they ultimately come forward, we vilify them and
their families. We exclude them from our camps and our schools.
Hakezona ya’aseh es achoseini?
And this was aided and abetted by the kehilah leadership, rachmana
litzlan! The kehilah leadership! Not even a brush full of the blackest
of paint could put such horrors on a canvas!
Has there ever been such a parallel in our entire history? [...]
Our reaction must be to immediately dissolve this Vaad HaTzniyus which forced Yiddishe girls into the hands of a monster. Their names should be recorded and never again must such people be put in charge of such grave matters of responsibility. A vaad of tzniyus must only be direct representatives of choshuvah and leading poskim well respected throughout the Torah world. And no matter who it may be, which meyuchasdika person, we must never forget the holy words of Chazal, “Ein apitropus l’arayos—no one, absolutely no one can be trusted alone in matters of arayos.”
Our reaction must be to immediately dissolve this Vaad HaTzniyus which forced Yiddishe girls into the hands of a monster. Their names should be recorded and never again must such people be put in charge of such grave matters of responsibility. A vaad of tzniyus must only be direct representatives of choshuvah and leading poskim well respected throughout the Torah world. And no matter who it may be, which meyuchasdika person, we must never forget the holy words of Chazal, “Ein apitropus l’arayos—no one, absolutely no one can be trusted alone in matters of arayos.”