Episode 12: Coverup at Yeshiva University - The Pre-Child Victims Act Years

In this episode we begin our series on the decades of sexual abuse committed and covered up at Yeshiva University. Over the course of this series we'll be covering the many the abusers named in the currently active Child Victims Act lawsuits, of which there are over a dozen, and the many people who were responsible for covering it all up. Among the people named as enablers, we'll be discussing Norman Lamm, Herschel Schachter, Michael Broyde, and other higher-ups in Yeshiva University administration. 

In discussing this case we'll be focusing not only on the abuse and the MOs of the abusers, but on the particulars of the coverups. Abusers seek to abuse, and they seek to do so in environments and communities where they can assume they'll get away with it. The enablers are the real reason the abuse is happening because they provide a setting for abusers in which they feel comfortable abusing knowing they'll probably get away with it. That's what Yeshiva University was from the 1960s to the late 2010s - a haven for sexual abusers like George Finkelstein, Macy Gordon, Richard Andron, and others. We'll be covering what they did and how they got away with it for so many decades.

Banter ends at 5:42.

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SHOW NOTES: 

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2012-12-13/ty-article/yeshiva-u-dealt-with-sex-abuse-charges-privately/0000017f-f0fe-df98-a5ff-f3ff60670000

https://ecf.nysd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_multidocs.pl?caseid=414489&arr_de_seq_nums=46&magic_num=&pdf_header=&hdr=&pdf_toggle_possible=1&caseid=414489&zipit=&magic_num=&arr_de_seq_nums=46&got_warning=&create_roa=&create_appendix=&bates_format=&dkt=&got_receipt=1 (You'll need a PACER account for this)

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=bf_PLUS_PCrQDkyYQfc_PLUS_Xi8_PLUS_miw==

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=Rj4gNvwSPDdmkfAMbm8Agw==

https://verdict.justia.com/2013/09/05/sullivan-cromwell-and-yeshiva-university-issue-a-disappointing-report-on-child-sex-abuse-that-is-short-on-facts-and-long-on-public-relations