A spike in sex crimes victims coming forward in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community is seen a positive first step for law enforcement. Charles Hynes, District Attorney for Kings County and Rhonnie Jaus, chief of the District Attorney's sex crime bureau, discuss their efforts to encourage reporting with various community partnerships, including one with Faye Wilbur, coordinator of family violence services to the Jewish community, Jewish Board of Family and Children Services in Borough Park.
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With respect to the reluctance to report sexual, or domestic abuse, I think a major issue for woman and children is the fear that nothing will be done to protect the victim. I believe that is especially true in closed religious communities, but is also true in society as a whole. A woman will not put herself out there and report abuse when she has learned from experience nothing will be done to protect her or her children.
How different from applying Sharia to Muslims different from allowing the internal Jewish community to adjudicate these crimes?
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