Conviction Jewish institutions and contexts Hasidic and Haredi communities Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA · 2013

Meir Dascalowitz: guilty plea for molesting a disabled teenage boy in a Satmar mikveh

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

mikveh attendant/supervisor in the Satmar community

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Dascalowitz had supervisory access to the boy inside the mikveh, a space governed by strict religious rules of purity and modesty where a minor is expected to submit to the adult attendant's direction; the family that reported the abuse was subsequently shunned and intimidated within the Satmar community for pursuing the case.

Sacred sex, purity, or sexual-energy claim
Institutional obedience or isolation

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Proceedings

2013-05-01 · guilty plea and sentence

Kings County Supreme Court, New York. Meir Dascalowitz, 27, pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual abuse for molesting a mentally disabled Hasidic teenage boy inside a mikveh (ritual bath) and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. He was later released, re-arrested for a parole violation, and re-released.

Documented coercion mechanisms

access to a mentally disabled minor inside the ritual bath he supervised, and the community's expectation of deference to religious functionaries

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reliable contemporaneous court reporting plea report 'Williamsburg Man Pleads Guilty To Molesting Hasidic Teen In Mikva; To Get 5 Yrs', VINnews (2013).: Reports the guilty plea to second-degree sexual abuse and the agreed five-year sentence for molesting a disabled teenager in the mikveh.
reference summary background 'Sexual abuse cases in Brooklyn's Haredi community', Wikipedia.: Summarizes the case within the broader pattern of Haredi community sexual-abuse cases and community retaliation against reporting families.

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Source and tier basis: https://vinnews.com/2013/04/18/brooklyn-ny-williamsburg-man-pleads-guilty-to-molesting-hasidic-teen-in-mikva-to-get-5-yrs/ Corpus classification: reliable-contemporaneous-court-reporting; evidentiary role: plea-report. SHA-256 8d0cb7659a4d7aa9625d6defad1727d69458fa3d76861311b7ccd70451912169
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Source and tier basis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_cases_in_Brooklyn%27s_Haredi_community Corpus classification: reference-summary; evidentiary role: background. SHA-256 0cea648206aacfc865e6abeb55e891606dddb9f29718eac097e4c276ffd2ba6d
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