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Conviction Jewish institutions and contexts Other Jewish institution or hearing Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2018

Canada: Orthodox day-school teacher convicted of decades-spanning abuse of students

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

teacher at Eitz Chaim Schools (1986–2004) and supply teacher at Yeshiva Yesodei HaTorah

Organization

Eitz Chaim Schools, Toronto, Yeshiva Yesodei HaTorah, Toronto

Spiritual nexus

Students of Orthodox day schools under their teacher — the same pattern as the corpus's Melbourne Yeshivah records.

  • Guru or spiritual-teacher authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2018-11-01 · conviction and sentence

    Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Canada. Stephen Schacter, a teacher at Toronto's Eitz Chaim Schools for nearly two decades and later a supply teacher at Yeshiva Yesodei HaTorah, was convicted in November 2018 of three counts of sexual assault, two of sexual interference and one of gross indecency against student victims (offences 1982–2002, one boy abused dozens of times at ages eleven to thirteen), with a separate 2018 child-pornography conviction, and was sentenced in 2019 to five years.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • teacher's authority over Orthodox day-school students across two decades

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict report The Times of Israel: 'Ex-teacher at 2 Toronto Jewish day schools convicted of sex offenses'.

Report of the conviction.

national newspaper court reporting investigative report The Globe and Mail: 'Why sex assault charges against a Toronto teacher took 20 years'.

National paper of record's investigation of the case's history.

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