A Brooklyn rabbi fled to Israel ten years ago after being accused of harassing relatives of deporting children to New York City.
Gershon Kranczer, 65, was arrested at the Brooklyn High Court Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting at least two of his small female relatives, the New York Post reported.
The Israeli Ministry of Justice said he was last arrested by Israeli police on January 10, 2020 after Israeli authorities held him in custody for more than five years to comply with an extension request in 2012 , according to the Jewish publication Forward.
He spent more than a decade abroad using aliases and fought for expansion to the United States in the year since his arrest, sources told the Post.
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Gershon Kranczer, 65, pictured is in custody on March 11, 2021, more than a decade after fleeing New York
Gershon Kranczer, 65, was arrested at the Brooklyn High Court Thursday on charges of sexually assaulting at least two of his small female relatives
Gershon spent more than a decade abroad using aliases and fought for expansion into the United States in the year since his arrest.
According to Forward, Israeli Ministry of Justice officials said Kranczer never immigrated to Israel and did not have a residence visa.
Kranczer was charged with sexual misconduct against a child, criminal sexual act and sexual abuse and was ordered unsecured at his rape Thursday.
Former Yeshiva principal Tehila L’Dovid has been accused of aborting one of the girls from August 1996, when she was just six years old, until February 2003, prosecutors told Phost.
He also said he sexually abused an 11-year-old girl between March 2001 and September 2002, the Post said.
Three of his sons reportedly assaulted other girls again, cops told the New York Daily News in 2010.
Kranczer fled to Israel in 2010 with his son, Asher, who is legally blind, while under investigation to escape the law. It was not immediately clear whether Asher Kranczer was arrested or extradited to the United States.
Investigators at the time believed Kranczer’s wife was unaware of the allegations or the abuse but gave her husband a trip to John F. Kennedy Airport, which was reported at the time.
The NYPD warned Interpol that Kranczer had left the United States and the Intel Bureau International Liaison Unit was coordinated by Israeli police in an attempt to track him down, sources told the Post.
His son Yechezkel Kranczer had turned himself into the NYPD in 2010 the day after another of his sons, whose name was withheld at the time because he was also a minor. adult, turned himself into a cops the day before, the Daily News reported.
Gershon Kranczer, former vice-principal of Yeshiva Tehila L’Dovid, is accused of harassing one of the girls from August 1996 to February 2003
His wife, who is also his first cousin, was reportedly taken to the airport before fleeing.
The 15-year-old suspect was accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old relative, it was reported at the time. It was not immediately known whether he was convicted of the sexual abuse.
Yechezkel Kranczer later set up $ 10,000 bail and left Brooklyn Criminal Court after being arrested on charges of sexual abuse and endangering child welfare, the Daily News reported.
He was convicted and sentenced, according to the Algemeiner – a Jewish newspaper in New York City.
This abuse was first revealed when one of the victims told a colleague that she had been sexually assaulted, according to the uprising.
The co-worker reported a cop of the abuse, and officials found that three more female relatives, ages 8 to 19, were also abused in the rabbi’s home.
Investigators raided a ‘broken’ rabbi’s home he shared with his wife, who is also his first cousin, and his 14 children, cops told the Daily News in 2010.
The Jewish Community Guard, a watchdog that works to combat child sexual abuse within the Orthodox Jewish community, told Forward last year that the group was ‘shocked’ by how long it took. e to get justice.
‘We are amazed at the horrific, traumatic process that has been inflicted on the victims, all the while denying and being so skeptical of so many in their community,’ he said. Jewish Community Guard in statement.
The authorities in the US and Israel have much to answer, by allowing this issue to drag on for so long. ‘