Child abuse

'Ritual sexual abuse' of minors: Senior religious Zionist rabbi warns of ‘social narcissism’

Medan said the alleged perpetrators are not strangers but people who may be embedded in daily community life, including in synagogues and shared religious study settings.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rabbi Yaakov Medan speaks during a protest against the planned eviction of the outpost of Amona, in front of the Israeli parliament on January 30, 2017.
Elazar Rumpler, a senior leader within haredi cult Lev Tahor, appearing in the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing in 2020; illustrative.

Jerusalem court sends senior Lev Tahor cult leader Elazar Rumpler to prison in child abuse case

Elazar Rumpler, a Lev Tahor haredi cult leader, was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay a total of NIS 22,000 in fines and compensation for assaulting a 10-year-old child.

|ByJAMES GENN
A young Iraqi girl who has reached the age of wearing a hijab, is clothed in the head covering worn by many Muslim women for the first time during a ceremony organised at the Basra International Stadium in Iraq's southern city of Basra on December 11, 2025.

After Iraq legalizes child marriage, Baghdad bridal market booms as young girls sold to older men

Iraq’s decision to introduce the Ja’fari law in January means that girls can be married based on perceived “maturity and physical capacity.”

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
PEOPLE ATTEND a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 21, 2022.

Iran had highest number of executions in over a decade, human rights report says

Iran's treatment of prisoners in 2025 was also rife with abuses, according to the report, with 2,513 cases of prisoners being held in inappropriate conditions.

|ByTZVI JASPER

High Court rules against autopsy of allegedly strangled child amid protests

Ultra-Orthodox communities around the country protested on Sunday night and Monday after the court announced that there would be an autopsy.

AUGUST 15, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Police scuffle with ultra orthodox jewish men protesting against the autopsy of a 4-year old boy who was murdered by a family member in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot a few days ago, in Jerusalem, August 15, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israeli days-old baby abandoned in cardboard box, found alive

Police officers found the infant with the umbilical cord still attached to his stomach.

AUGUST 4, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
THE OLD city of Acre, a week after violent riots threatened to tear the city apart.

Pope travels to Canada on 'pilgrimage of penance' for indigenous abuse

In Canada, between 1881 and 1996, more than 150,000 indigenous children were separated from their families and brought to residential schools.

JULY 24, 2022ByREUTERS
Pope Francis looks on during an exclusive interview with Reuters, at the Vatican, July 2, 2022.

Israel needs to stop being a haven for sex criminals - editorial

What happened with Leifer needs to be a lesson for the Israeli government that sex offenders are not wanted in the country.

JULY 20, 2022ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked at The Jerusalem Post's London conference on March 31, 2022.

Israel extends statute of limitations for sexual abuse of minors

Statute of limitations for sexual abuse of minors extended to age 35 • Will apply to family, institutions that knew of abuse

JUNE 30, 2022ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
Male hands arrested with handcuffs in Criminal concept (illustrative)

Lawsuit alleges mishandling of sex assault allegation at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires

The lawsuit’s allegations come amid a nationwide reckoning about the handling of sexual assault allegations within Jewish institutions.

MAY 10, 2022ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
“We chose the Berkshires as many of us ride their often and are familiar with the routes and the terrain and elevations. While there will be riders of varying levels. We believe it will be challenging yet accessible to all levels of our rider constituency. Some of us will be out there the weekend be

Pope mandates annual audit on protection of children from abuse

"Sexual abuse in the Church has been going on for far too long."

MAY 1, 2022ByREUTERS
Juan Carlos Cruz speaks to the media outside the Vatican

Israel's daycare nightmare: How abuse in ganim is being fought

Reports over the past couple years of children abused in daycares were once seen as uncommon, but it has become evident that they are part of a frightening phenomenon.

APRIL 19, 2022ByARIELLA MARSDEN
PARENTS PROTEST the abuse of children in daycares, in Ashdod.

Four preschool teachers arrested on suspicion of abuse

 Police intend to continue the investigation, which has been ongoing for two weeks.

APRIL 19, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Young Israeli students with their parents make their way to school and kindergarten in Jerusalem on September 30, 2021.

Israelis must protect their children from abusive teachers - opinion

Hardly a week goes by without a troubling report of young children being accosted and violently handled by nursery school teachers.

MARCH 26, 2022ByBARRY NEWMAN
PARENTS AND supporters protest outside a hearing at the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court last month, for two kindergarten teachers allegedly seen on video abusing toddlers. Slogans on the placards include ‘Justice for the toddlers’