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What happened with Leiby is a terrible tragedy. It is a tragedy that shook the foundations of Klal Yisroel.
It is a tragedy that shook our belief in ourselves and caused a massive degree of introspection.
The fact that the Killer was no longer religous is of little comfort.
He went to Yeshivos, he grew up amongstus.
Such s thing has never ever occurred and should never occur and when if it does then yes all of us must look deep inside and ask what went wrong with our chinuch system that such atragedy can happen.
However it boggles the mind that there are those who wish to use this tragedy to further their own ends.
We are told “go to the police they are the pro’s Beis Din does not know how to investigate these things”.
Well now the pro’s have said that all evidence shows there was no molestation and the confession was more or less accurate not completley, but more or less.
Yet some people continue to cling to the their agenda.
With all due respect, I beleive that is dangerous.
It is very easy to say that we have to learn from this the ABC’s or to protect our children.
All that does is exempt us completley.
Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky shlita is in his eighties and is reported to have said that he lived through a lot but never saw something like this happen.
Rav Elyashiv and Rav Chaim Kanievsky two of the Gedolei HaDor refused to ansewer why such a thing happened.
We are left with one thing only.
It happened.
It happened amongst us.
We must all take reponsibilty.
W emust all look inside of each of ourselves and ask “where was their room for such unprecedented evil to come from within our midst?
Where did our chinuch sytem change?
Where did our culture change.
We must ask these questions, we dare not take the easy way out and we must say “Never Again” will such a thing happen amongst us.