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

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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

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

Guru or spiritual-teacher authority

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Proceedings

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

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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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Source and tier basis: https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-teacher-at-2-toronto-jewish-day-schools-convicted-of-sex-offenses/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-report. SHA-256 f3aa5a64bb4a931e5f4642b8c79037944beef9e5c9b26cf6b9c21b8db8a7b389
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Source and tier basis: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/why-sex-assault-charges-against-a-toronto-teacher-took-20-years/article30112686/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: investigative-report. SHA-256 25effd17f17c635e854f12844a5396708828c5275ec6d6f74147ecccec437bf9
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