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
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Queens yeshiva student pleads guilty to fondling two young girls he tutored (02/29/2012)
- Yeshiva student pleads guilty to sexually molesting two fourth-graders (02/29/2012)
Yeshiva tutor admits molesting girls, 8 (03/01/2012)
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Parents of young girls sexually assaulted by Yeshiva tutor lash out at perv (04/17/2012)
2013
- 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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