(UK) 280,000 girls accept sex abuse as being normal

280,000 girls accept sex abuse as being normal 

By Rob Hastings

The Independent - February 29, 2012 

As many as 280,000 teenage girls are suffering from sexual abuse because they believe it is an accepted part of relationships or do not believe they can stop it, the NSPCC has warned.

In a disturbing report, the charity said fewer than 20 per cent of cases are reported by young people, as opposed to the majority of cases in which adults are abused. "Many girls are being forced to carry out sexual acts and in some cases are even being raped," said Jon Brown of the NSPCC. "We're not talking about 'horse play' or teenagers experimenting, this is often serious abuse. But unfortunately many of the girls don't see it that way. They think it's just part of a relationship they have with a boy or may be too embarrassed or frightened to tell anyone about it."

It added that the chance of a girl being sexually assaulted rises dramatically once they reach early teenage years.

"Frequently they will feel this is just part of growing up and won't recognise that it's wrong," said Sue Minto, head of ChildLine. "Fewer than six per cent of the 16,000 contacts we had last year about sexual abuse were from children saying they had been assaulted by another young person, so this seems to bear that out."

 

Case of Hillel Selznick

Case of Hillel Selznick

Rabbinical Seminary of America - Flushing, NY

Kew Garden Hills, Queens, NY
Long Beach, NY
Richmond, VA
Florida 

Plead guilty to molesting two forth grade girls during private religious lessons inside their Kew Garden Hills homes.  He was sentenced to six months in jail, 10 years probation, complete a sex offender program and register as sex offender.  He was also ordered to pay $1000 in fines.  At the time of the assaults, Selznick was a student at the Rabbinical Seminary of America and is originally from Richmond, VA

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Table of contents:

2012

1. Queens yeshiva student pleads guilty to fondling two young girls he tutored  (02/29/2012)
2. Yeshiva student pleads guilty to sexually molesting two fourth-graders (02/29/2012)
3. Yeshiva tutor admits molesting girls, 8 (03/01/2012)
4. Parents of young girls sexually assaulted by Yeshiva tutor lash out at perv (04/17/2012)

2013

1. New York Sex Offender Registry (02/09/2013)

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Queens yeshiva student pleads guilty to fondling two young girls he tutored
By Thmas Zambito
New York Daily News - February 29, 2012

A Queens yeshiva student pleaded guilty Wednesday to fondling two young girls he tutored in their homes.

Hillel Selznick, 25, will serve six months in jail and 10 years probation as part of a plea deal with Queens prosecutors.

Cops say Selznick, a student at a Flushing rabbinical school, fondled the 8-year-old girls on several occasions between October 2010 and January 2011.

Selznick lived at the school while pursuing his doctorate and tutored youngsters during his free time.

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Yeshiva student pleads guilty to sexually molesting two fourth-graders
By Christina Carrega
New York Post - February 29, 2012 

A Yeshiva student who was trusted by parents to tutor their children pleaded guilty today for sexually molesting two fourth grade students.

Hillel Selznick, 25 of Flushing, admitted to Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter that he inappropriately touched a set of eight-year-old girls -- over a year-long period -- during private tutoring lessons inside the victim's homes.

Selznick, who was a student at Rabbinical Seminary of America, pleaded to two counts of course sexual misconduct against a child and will be sentenced on April 17 to six months in jail, 10 years probation, complete a sex offender program and register as sex offender.

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Yeshiva tutor admits molesting girls, 8
By Christina Carrega
New York Post - March 1, 2012

A yeshiva student trusted by parents to tutor their children pleaded guilty yesterday to sexually molesting two fourth-graders. 

Hillel Selznick, 25, of Flushing, told Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter he inappropriately touched the two 8-year-old girls over the course of a year during private tutoring lessons inside the victims' homes. 

Selznick, who was a student at the Rabbinical Seminary of America, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual conduct against a child and will be sentenced on April 17 to six months in jail and 10 years' probation. He will also have to register as a sex offender.

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Parents of young girls sexually assaulted by Yeshiva tutor lash out at perv

By Christina Carrega

New York Post - April 17, 2012

The parents of two young girls who were sexually assaulted by their religious tutor, lashed out this morning at the “wolf in sheep’s clothing” they allowed in their homes as a judge tossed the pervert in jail.

Yeshiva student Hillel Selznick, 25, of Flushing, admitted to Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter that he inappropriately touched the two fourth graders over the course of a year during private religious lessons inside their Kew Gardens Hills homes.

“Hillel is indeed the worst type of predator,” said the angry mother of one of the victims, “someone who gains a parent’s trust only to do the most wicked and vile things to their innocent children.”

The woman cried as she read her impact statement to the creep who was recommended by rabbis and other parents. She was fooled by his “boyish looks and religious costumes” and regrettably entrusted her four children to him for tutoring. 

Hillel’s acts were revealed when one of the 8-year-old girls bravely told her mother that she was being molested by the trusted tutor.

“My daughter was living a private hell thanks to Hillel, years of abuse, under my own roof, while I was there!” the mother said through tears. “I probably never would have known. Hillel met his match when my friend’s daughter spoke out with lion-like courage.”

Judge Buchter, before sentencing Selznick to six months in jail, said: “He betrayed their trust in the most disgusting way, these children have been traumatized.”

“He’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” said the judge who also ordered the perv to complete a sex offender program, register as a sex offender and pay $1,000 in fines.

“The punishment in this world will only be child’s play compared to what awaits you in the next world,” said the victim's mom.

The now 10-year-old girls were spared from reliving those terrifying moments at a trial when Selznick pleaded guilty to two-counts of sexual conduct against a child.

The Orthodox Jewish man, who had been facing up to seven years in prison, held his head down in shame and declined to speak in his own defense before he was hauled away to jail, where he will be placed in protective custody.

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New York Sex Offender Registry
February 9, 2013

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Deborah Feldman On The View

Deborah Feldman On "The View".

Deborah Feldman, who was interviewed by Barbara Walters and Whoopie Goldberg on the television show –– "The View".

Deborah was the author of the book "Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots."