I couldn't agree more. I will never understand a parent's not wanting to protect their children. I will also never understand a community that doesn't want someone who sexually abused children to be held accountable for their actions. Sometimes these type of stories are ripe with anti-children right's sentiment. Can you imagine how the five children who the police are aware of, whose family didn't come forward are feeling? Their parents and community have just taught them they their right's don't matter. That what adults do to children doesn't matter. What matters is keeping secrets. Keeping secrets has been one of the biggest problems with even talking about child sexual abuse. It took over forty years of children in the US having rights for child sexual abuse to be a topic in main stream media. One of my concerns with a community that will keep this type of secret is how many more secrets are they keeping? How many more children are being harmed? And not protected?“There is a duty for all adults to protect our children and the only way they can be protected is if they cooperate with law enforcement and allow law enforcement to protect them,” DelGiudice said.
Then their is the reality that some children who are sexually abused become child sexual abusers. Keeping quiet is only going to perpetuate the problem. If I had kept quiet in my life it is possible the same thing that happened to me would have happened to my children. Some of my family didn't like and still don't like that I talk about the history in my family of incestuous pedophilia. They would rather people not know. I purposely kept my children away from Ruth and others in the family who I believed ran the risk of sexually abusing my children. I didn't want to take the chance of them being harmed. It was more important to me that I kept my children safe then caring whether or not some in the family were mad because I didn't speak to Ruth. IMO this is called taking a stand for children and caring more about their well-being then my own. I hope when the five children whose family did nothing find the strength to come forward and talk about what happened. Maybe they will make the community safer for when they have children. One can only hope. Rosie
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1:59 AM, May 22, 2012
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1:44 AM, May 22, 2012
A deviant dad could be caged for the rest of his life for preying on kids in his Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn. Michael
Sabo was smacked with a 20-years-to-life prison sentence yesterday
after relatives of his two young victims trashed him as a “monster” who
should never walk free again — and as District Attorney Charles Hynes
continued taking heat for shielding the names of accused sexual
attackers in religious Jewish communities. “I feel like breaking
your bones and I hope you rot in prison,” one of Sabo’s victims, now 16,
wrote in a letter read aloud in court by his dad. “I want to kill you
over and over again.”
Photos: Gregory P. Mango
‘MONSTER’ CAGED: Michael Sabo (above) is sentenced to prison by Justice Vincent DelGiudice in Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday.
Sabo pleaded guilty this month to molesting a boy and a girl over
several years, even as prosecutors said the girl’s relatives were
pressured in a synagogue by Sabo supporters who vowed to pack the
courtroom if she dared to testify against him.
“Despite this shameful act, these children and their parents still had the courage to come to court,” prosecutor Kevin O’Donnell said.
The family of another of Sabo’s accusers didn’t cooperate because of fear of reprisals from within the Orthodox community, prosecutors said.
Justice Vincent DelGiudice lamented the “lenient” sentence that came with the plea deal accepted by Sabo on the eve of trial — and took a veiled swipe at community members who choose to side with child molesters.
“There is a duty for all adults to protect our children and the only way they can be protected is if they cooperate with law enforcement and allow law enforcement to protect them,” DelGiudice said.
Hynes has been criticized for not making public the names of accused molesters from Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods. Critics have accused Hynes of kowtowing to that constituency, which has overwhelmingly supported him in past elections.
The veteran prosecutor contends he’s trying to shield sex-abuse victims and their families from intimidation in the tight-knit communities.
In addition to the two kids whose families didn’t cooperate, prosecutors said they had evidence that Sabo preyed on five other young victims.
DelGiudice said parents should take comfort in knowing that Sabo, 38 and a father of four, could be locked away for life.
“They should have peace in knowing this man will never be able to harm another child for as long as he lives,” the judge said.
Relatives of the boy and girl whom he admitted molesting didn’t hold back as they blasted Sabo, who kept his head down as he was repeatedly called a “monster.”
“While pretending to be our family and pretending to be nice, he was sexually abusing my sister,” said the older sister of his now-12-year-old female victim. “This is the true definition of a sociopath.”
The boy’s father choked up as he read aloud words from his son, who trashed Sabo as a “miserable, rotten piece of slime.”
“Why? Why did you hurt these innocent children?” the father said. “What did they do to you?”
jose.martinez@nypost.com
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