Droid, they’re thinking that this is not his first time. There is evidence that he stalked other young boys as well and it is also said that that he probably got rid of evidence of what he did to little Leiby, a”h. I also heard from someone who was in on the details that we weren’t privy to know and he said things are being kept quiet about this issue so yes we don’t know for sure if he did it but chances are yes, he did and that there was a cover up.

I know I said I wouldn’t post on this thread anymore but being that no one else feels the need to, I think that I have to.

I just heard on the news that Levi Aron stalked other boys and that he tried to kidnap other boys before this. This makes him a pedophile.

I am begging everyone to not turn the other way when they know there is a pedophile/child molester in their midst. Please please report it to the authorities immediately. No one deserves to suffer from these people. I’m assuming that most people would feel very guilty if they KNEW that a certain person was an abuser and didn’t report it but then this abuser would either escalate to killing someone or the abusee would kill himself. I think people would feel very guilty over something like that. Let’s try to prevent that from happening!!

I hope this post gets posted… I know my last 2 didn’t get posted. I understand why, this is a VERY SORE TOPIC!!

Don’t worry. I was under the care of a Dr when I was put on the Topomax. I have been on many diets under a Dr and nutritionists care. It seems like this is my last option…

I don’t want any of that acai (or however you spell it) stuff. They’re not safe. I’m not in2 herbal remedies or herbal medications. In my opinion (and my Drs’), they’re all fake and unsafe.

msseeker- who said it is as bad as by others? It was said that it is rampant but no1 ever said that it is as bad as in other societies.

Also, ask any therapist, social worker, or psychiatrist. They will tell you that more than half their patients have some type of history of abuse.

Really strange. Apparently the mods deleted zahavasdad last post because I WAS NOT seeing things and just posting to the wall. You can ignore the first two lines of my last post since they now don’t make sense without her post there although I did think it was a very intelligent remark.

zahavasdad, THANK YOU!!! I was trying to come up with a nice way of saying something like that but nothing was coming to mind.

I just want all of you to know that before I posted here I discussed it with a rav. I did not want to do anything against halacha. I was told that I am allowed to post (in general, not specifically on ywn) because it is those abusers doing the wrong!!

Again, I feel like whomever is saying that it is loshon hara, think for a second. If c”v it happened to your child or sibling, would you still think that it is loshon hara? Just curious to what people will answer to this…

Any kin.d of abuse is horrible but what I’m specifically talking about right now is physical/molestation.

I’m not saying that all of these at risk teens were abused but many of them were and if we’re at the point where we’re going to say that some of them make it up so we’re not going to believe any of them then that can be very detrimental to those who really were. observanteen- I’m not saying you are at this point I’m just saying that in general.

Also, I’m having a hard time figuring out how to write it but if according to this rabbi of mine many of the at risk teens have gone off because they were abused and the at risk community is so large, doesn’t this prove that the abuse “issue” (hate using that word for it) is more rampant then most want to believe? Don’t know if I’m making sense here. It’s pretty clear in my mind what I’m trying to say but hard to write in words…

This is an excerpt from Rabbi Horowitz’s website

“How many children are we talking about? How many abuse victims are there? I posed this question to the three experts mentioned above. Each of them responded by saying that there is no research that they know of in the frum community and they have no hard numbers. But when I asked if they would say that there are a) tens, b) hundreds or c) thousands [of abused children]

The 3 proffesionals that this question was asked to are: Doctors David Pelcovitz, Barry Horowitz, and Bentzion Twersky. All 3 who are prominent Drs in our community! If you’d like more proof, please let me know.

shlishi, I am going to come back to you with #’s so that you can have exact evidence that this is a major issue in the frum communities!!

Thank you to all that agree with me. I was so nervous that no one did since someone disagreed with me, I was nervous that all people (or most) were of the same opinion as this person.

Do any of you think there is something that we can do about it? Besides for educating our children?

Ok… here goes nothing.

It’s related to the topic of the dreaded “A” word- abuse.

It was said in the coffee room that it is not rampant and that it is not such a major issue in the frum community.

Here are my feelings on the topic.

It is rampant but it is covered up. But even if it wasn’t rampant even ONE case of it is a horrible thing especially since we are looked at as a nation even more closely than any other nation in the world.

Here is a quote from a Rabbi and a Dr that I contacted since I was very bothered about the fact that people think that it isn’t such a big deal in our communities-

“It is rampant. It is covered up. Even one case is one too many. We and the rest of the world hold ourselves to a higher moral standard. The Jewish community is on the verge of a “Priest Scandal, which the media will love to expose widely. We need to shape up and do it quickly before even one more neshoma is destroyed. My humble opinion and observations.”

Mods, I understand if you don’t let this through but it would really mean a lot to me if it was. You can close the topic afterwards if you’d like. I just really want my comments to be heard for once and for all. Thanks;)

For you, anything 🙂

guess it’s just not something they’re willing to help in:( Sorry adorable! Wish I could figure out some way to make this work.