עס כאפט ממש אן א ציטער צו ליינען דאס ארטיקעל, איך ברענג דא פון שמרי' ראזענבערג'ס בלאג Failed Messiah וואס ער ברענגט פון דע New York Times. אויב פארשטייסטע נישט קיין ענגליש בעט דיין ווייב זי זאל עס דיר ליינען, עס איז סייווי כדאי ביידע זאלען עס ליינען. אפשר וועט עס דיר עפענען די אויגען - וועסט אנדערש קוקען אויף דע צרה וואס הייסט נחמי' וועבערמאן.
Understanding Child Sexual Abuse
A case history that ends in suicide should show you why pedophiles are rarely arrested or convicted.
Read the following piece from yesterday's New York Times. Note the years of accusations, the charisma of the accused, the fear and shame of the victims. Dr. Levine was not Orthodox and he did not even need to have been Jewish for the lesson to be clear. Pedophiles abuse and they abuse often; their victims are almost always too terrified and too ashamed to come forward; and the pedophile is very often a likable, professionally accomplished, charismatic person:Pediatrician in Abuse Case Killed Himself
By TAMAR LEWIN • New York Times
Dr. Melvin D. Levine, a nationally known pediatrician who was found dead last week, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a medical examiner said on Friday.
Dr. Levine, 71, was found in the woods near his Rougemont, N.C., home with a gunshot wound to his forehead. His death was reported a day after a class-action sexual abuse and malpractice suit was filed against him in Boston.
A report by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina said officers went to Dr. Levine’s home the night of Feb. 17 after his wife reported finding a suicide note, but they were not initially able to find his body. The contents of the note have not been released.
The Boston lawsuit charges that Dr. Levine performed unnecessary genital exams on 40 boys while at Children’s Hospital Boston from 1966 to 1985.
Although Dr. Levine, a Rhodes scholar, had long been dogged by charges of sexually abusing young male patients, he had maintained that he was innocent. He was never convicted on any abuse charge, and never faced criminal charges.
On Friday The Boston Globe reported that several men who said they had been molested as young boys had described encounters in which they said Dr. Levine groped, fondled or performed oral sex on them. One recalled a trip on which he and Dr. Levine were in the same bed, saying that when the doctor took off his clothes, he put his arm around the boy and fondled him.
Dr. Levine, 71, was found in the woods near his Rougemont, N.C., home with a gunshot wound to his forehead. His death was reported a day after a class-action sexual abuse and malpractice suit was filed against him in Boston.
A report by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina said officers went to Dr. Levine’s home the night of Feb. 17 after his wife reported finding a suicide note, but they were not initially able to find his body. The contents of the note have not been released.
The Boston lawsuit charges that Dr. Levine performed unnecessary genital exams on 40 boys while at Children’s Hospital Boston from 1966 to 1985.
Although Dr. Levine, a Rhodes scholar, had long been dogged by charges of sexually abusing young male patients, he had maintained that he was innocent. He was never convicted on any abuse charge, and never faced criminal charges.
On Friday The Boston Globe reported that several men who said they had been molested as young boys had described encounters in which they said Dr. Levine groped, fondled or performed oral sex on them. One recalled a trip on which he and Dr. Levine were in the same bed, saying that when the doctor took off his clothes, he put his arm around the boy and fondled him.
