Students Demand $380 Million From Yeshiva U High School (sexual abuse/cover up)

[The Straight Story]

Students Demand $380 Million From Yeshiva U High School


WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CN) - Yeshiva University High School covered up teachers' and administrators' "horrific abuse" of students for decades - including a principal who "preyed upon children of Holocaust survivors," 19 former students claim in a $380 million lawsuit.

Lead plaintiffs Mordechai Twersky and Barry Singer sued Yeshiva University, Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy - Yeshiva University High School for Boys, Rabbi Norman Lamm, Rabbi Robert Hirt, and unnamed members of the university's board of trustees and the high school's board of directors, in Federal Court.

The other 17 plaintiffs sued as John Does.

They live in Israel and the United States and attended Yeshiva University High School between 1969 and 1989, according to the complaint.

The men claim that Yeshiva administrators, including former Chancellor Lamm, "enclosed themselves in a 'cocoon of callousness' by allowing several known sexual predators to assume and remain in exalted positions in YUHS's administration and faculty."

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"Starting in 1971 and spanning several decades, George Finkelstein ('Finkelstein'), an assistant principal, associate principal, and then principal of YUHS, repeatedly sexually abused multiple student victims," the complaint states. "Yet YU and YUHS administrators refused to take action against Finkelstein, never reported him to law enforcement authorities, and - despite actual knowledge of his propensity to sexually and physically assault children - never took any measures to prevent Finkelstein's future abuse of children.

"Finkelstein, as a YUHS administrator, specifically targeted vulnerable boys for physical and sexual abuse. He preyed upon children of Holocaust survivors and - after he abused them - implored these children to not add to their parents' suffering by telling them about his assaults.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/11/59269.htm

[PDJane]

1. I'm beginning to think that religious men simply tend to be pedophiles and sadists.

Baptist, Catholic, Jewish, Episcopalian......it's disgusting.

[nessa]

3. It's not about religion. It happens just as frequently in public schools. ...

and it's not just men. People who have this perversion put themselves in positions and jobs, where they will have access to vulnerable children.

Teachers, coaches, etc.

[WCLinolVir]

2. Agreed. there is a problem any time there is power and access to children. Pedophiles look for it

What is really gross to think of is the complicity of other adults who are not pedophiles. How do they justify doing nothing?? Some sort of mass pathology? Religion just provides these creeps a way to get victims who have already been institutionalized not to question authority. Also gives these creeps a legitimate reason to have as much contact as they do. A front.
I really feel the death penalty is appropriate for these types.