Two weeks ago in these pages I published a column on the painful topic of child abuse titled “Lm’aan Hashem – What Will it Take?”
Here is a quote from that article:
“Is there any more sacred obligation than protecting the children entrusted to our care? Shame on us, for failing to treat it as such. Shame on us, for allowing ourselves to repeatedly get distracted with meaningless and often silly non-issues raised by self-appointed “askanim” that purport to pose spiritual risk to our children while our paramount communal responsibility to keep evil people from destroying the physical and spiritual lives of our children keeps getting bumped to the back burner.”
To this I would add: Shame on the kanoim who harassed a wonderful member of our community like Dr. Twerski. You have the blood of future abuse victims on your hands – kids who could have been saved by the initiatives Dr. Twerski would have implemented.
And shame on all of us for allowing such an olam hafuch to be perpetuated.