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Conviction Jewish institutions and contexts Other Jewish institution or hearing New Haven, Connecticut, USA · 2019

Rabbi Daniel Greer convicted of abusing a student at the yeshiva he founded

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

rabbi, founder and head of a yeshiva

Organization

Yeshiva of New Haven

Spiritual nexus

As founder and head of the yeshiva, Greer held direct religious and disciplinary authority over the student he abused, on the school premises where the student's religious education and standing depended on him.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2019-12-02 · jury conviction and sentence; separate civil judgment

    Connecticut Superior Court; federal civil suit. A jury convicted Rabbi Daniel Greer, founder of the Yeshiva of New Haven, on four counts of risk of injury to a minor for repeatedly sexually abusing a teenage student, and he was sentenced to 12 years. The victim separately won a $15 million judgment in a federal civil suit.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • religious and disciplinary authority over a student at his school

Primary record

Sources

reliable contemporaneous court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Rabbi convicted of sex abuse gets 12 years in prison', Court TV (2019).

Reports the jury conviction on four counts and the twelve-year sentence imposed on the yeshiva's founder.

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