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Conviction Jewish institutions and contexts Hasidic and Haredi communities Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom · 2015

United Kingdom: Charedi community figure convicted; sentence appeal dismissed

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

prominent religious figure in the Salford Charedi community, in a position of care over the victims

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Within a closed religious community, the defendant's standing and position of care made the girls' disclosure carry communal cost — the dynamic IICSA later documented across such settings.

  • Institutional obedience or isolation
  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2015-01-01 · conviction; sentence appeal dismissed

    English Crown Court; Court of Appeal (Lady Justice Hallett). Todros Grynhaus, a prominent Charedi community figure and rabbi's son in a position of care over two girls, was convicted of indecent and sexual assault including penetration, and jailed for thirteen years and two months. The Court of Appeal dismissed his sentence appeal. He had initially fled to Israel on a false passport before extradition.

Appellate history

  1. 2015 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • religious-communal standing in a closed community
  • position of care over the girls

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Grynhaus jailed for 13 years', The Jewish Chronicle (2015).

Reports the conviction, sentence, flight and appeal dismissal.

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