Reply To: Molesters: Why Do Some In Our Community Cover For Them?

You ask how it can be that the molestor is protected? Well, he may be a prominent person in the community – even a rabbi. People will cover up because they are afraid it will ruin shidduchim for the person’s family members. Or it is that we as a holy Jewish nation cannot fathom that a so-called “frum” person could possibly do something so sick, so we make ourselves really nishtvissendik, or refuse to believe that someone we think we know so well would be such a pervert. It is really painful to acknowledge that a family member could do something so sick. We also do not want the Goyishe Velt to see that even we can fall prey to our taivos, however abnormal they are. And when we are busy pointing fingers at Goyim, three fingers are pointing back at ourselves. Not a pretty picture.