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האלט מען שוין טאקע דא אז מען שעמט זיך שוין נישט הויך צו זאגן איך האב גע'מסרט איבער 12 אידען ה"י

Rabbi Tzvi Gluck, 31, of Queens, the son of a prominent rabbi and an informal liaison to secular law enforcement, began helping victims after he met troubled teenagers at Our Place, a help center in Brooklyn, and realized that sexual abuse was often the root of their problems. It was when he began helping the teenagers report cases to the police that he also received threats.

In February, for example, he received a call asking him to urge an abuse victim to abandon a case. ''A guy called me up and said: 'Listen, I want you to know that people on the street are talking about what they can do to hurt you financially. And maybe speak to your children's schools, to get your kids thrown out of school.' ''

Rabbi Gluck said he had helped at least a dozen ultra-Orthodox abusevictims bring cases to the Brooklyn district attorney in recent years, and each time, he said, the victim came under heavy pressure to back down. In a case late last year that did not get to the police, a 30-year-old molested a 14-year-old boy in a Jewish ritual bath in Brooklyn, and a rabbi ''made the boy apologize to the molester for seducing him,'' he said.

''If a guy in our community gets diagnosed with cancer, the whole community will come running to help them,'' he said. ''But if someone comes out and says they were a victim of abuse, as a whole, the 


community looks at them and says, 'Go jump in a lake.' ''

באקומעו אין אישי
"איך בין געווען אין בראדוועי מצה בעקערי הארט פאר פסח און צבי גלאק איז געקומען בעטן מצות ווען זיי האבן געזאגט אז זיי האבן שוין נישט קיין מצות און פארשיקט אסאך מענטשען אן קיין מצות און ער האט באקומען וויפיל ער האט געוואלט און ה.ר. און איינע פון די שיבערס האבן עם נאך מקרב געווען"