Rav Moshe Soloveichik: Report Child Abuse to the Police!

Rav Moshe Soloveichik of Chicago recently spoke at an conference organized by the Jewish Board for Advocacy for Children, dealing with sex abuse in the Orthodox world.

Rav Soloveichik's impassioned speech attacks the policy, still current in many orthodox Jewish communities, that child abuse should be dealt with as an internal community matter, and that victims and their families should be actively dissuaded (he mentions threats to the shidduchim of their children, etc) from reporting to the authorities.   

I have witnessed such policies, very close to home, and the damage they have caused our children.

Kudos to Rav Moshe Soloveichik for standing up and declaring, without nuance or ambiguity, "go immediately to the police!!".

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  1. car donation29 December 2010 at 03:21

    Rav Moshe Soloveichik is one of the people that shows love to abused children. We could also be like him by showing our deepest love and concern. I suggest we helped charities and start standing out to be one of them.

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