31 Jan 2013

British Rabbi Filmed Telling Alleged Sex Abuse Victim Not To Go To Police

A senior Charedi rabbi has been secretly filmed warning an alleged victim of child sex abuse not to go to the police.

Rabbi Ephraim Padwa, head of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (UOHC), which is the organising body of the UK's strictly Orthodox community, was filmed claiming that to go to the police is an act of "mesira" - a Jewish law forbidding reporting a Jew to a non-Jewish authority.

Rabbi Ephraim Padwa, head of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations in Stamford Hill in London, was recorded by a former community member, in footage that is being broadcast by Channel 4 Dispatches.

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