Reply To: Uh oh! Cuomo signs bill requiring private schools to report.. allegations of

T22T: Are you really of the belief that someone who witnesses sexual abuse of a child in a yeshiva/beis Yaakov or any Yiddeshe mosdos should delay reporting that individual to law enforcement and instead report the incident to some beis din??? Any such delay makes the witness culpable of putting that child, and other children at risk. I’m not certain of how the New York criminal code deals with the issue but in some jurisdictions, teachers, social workers and mental health professionals who fail to report such incidents IMMEDIATELY are themselves subject to penalties, loss of licensing etc. There is no harm to concurrently reporting the suspect to a beis din so it can take parallel actions to be certain the school takes action to better monitor its rebbeim and those involved in secular instruction, investigate any other incidents that might not have been reported etc.