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Conviction Jewish institutions and contexts Other Jewish institution or hearing Ocean Township, New Jersey, USA · 2002

United States: NCSY national director convicted of abusing students at the yeshiva he led

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

rabbi; principal of Hillel Yeshiva High School; national director of NCSY (Orthodox Union youth movement)

Organization

Hillel Yeshiva High School, Ocean Township, NCSY / Orthodox Union

Spiritual nexus

Girls under their principal's religious-educational authority — and a youth-movement office whose prestige had shielded him through years of internal complaints.

  • Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2002-06-27 · jury conviction; largely affirmed on appeal

    Monmouth County Superior Court, New Jersey; NJ Appellate Division. Baruch Lanner, principal of Hillel Yeshiva High School and national director of the Orthodox Union's NCSY youth movement, was convicted in June 2002 of aggravated criminal sexual contact and child endangerment against two teenage girls who were his students (1992–96), and sentenced to seven years. In 2005 the Appellate Division reversed one endangerment count while affirming the balance; he was resentenced by amended judgment and paroled in January 2008.

Appellate history

  1. 2005 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • principal's authority over teenage students
  • national youth-movement standing that deflected complaints for decades

Primary record

Sources

national news agency verdict report 'Lanner convicted on abuse charges', JTA, 28 Jun. 2002.

Wire report of the verdict.

official court judgment appellate judgment State v. Lanner, NJ App. Div. (A-3385-04, 2006).

The appellate opinion on resentencing.

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