CONNECTICUT (JNS) — A Connecticut rabbi was found guilty on all four counts related to sexually assaulting a minor that could result in a maximum 80-year prison sentence.
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Rabbi Daniel Greer, 79, had been a long-respected rabbi in New Haven who has been credited with revitalizing the Edgewood neighborhood.
However, prosecutors said that between 2002 and 2003, he repeatedly had illegal sexual encounters with Eliyahu Mirlis, then 15, at Yeshiva New Haven, which Greer had founded, taught at and served as dean.
Mirlis said that Greer had sexually assaulted him on school property, at the Greer home, and at motels in Connecticut and in Pennsylvania.
In 2017, Mirlis, now 31, and currently residing in New Jersey, was awarded a $15 million civil lawsuit against Greer and the school. The award is currently being appealed.
Mirlis considered Greer as a “father figure” and kept quiet about the illegal interactions until he told his future wife in 2005. He said he didn’t think that anyone would believe him.
Greer was also originally charged with four counts of second-degree sexual assault—charges that were dismissed because the state’s statute of limitations expired.
Following the jury announcing the verdict, Greer’s wife, Sarah, demonstrated little emotion, though attempted to talk to him before he was led off in handcuffs.
Greer paid a $750,000 bond, and was required to wear an ankle monitor and give up his passport. He is currently under home confinement.
Dow said his client plans to appeal the verdict.
Is this the same Rabbi Greer who was at Columbia University circa 1970?
I wonder how long he has gotten away with this. I wonder how many people ignore complaints about him.
I wouldn’t have the guts to write this article, especially this time of year,
I would leave it to the רבוש”ע to judge me as opposed to social media, but who am I,,,
This man made a lot of enemies the way he he operated. People of the area that know him, know he is innocent beyond any doubt
something that happened some 16 – 17 years ago sounds hard to prove in court. Especially with out any witnesses.
but then I was not in the court to hear the info submitted as evidence…..
Does anyone believe this. Looks like a revenge or something like it.
If the alleged fiction was 15 in 2002 how can he be 20 in 2005? Also how is he 31 now if he was 20 in 2005? One will assume that there will be more than one victim. Sexual predators generally do not stop with first victim. Hopefully either the other victims will come out now or he will be vindicated.
Oh god, one day we will all be so ashamed, you dear reader know what I’m talking about…. we all have our secrets that we don’t want our kids or even the general population to know about…. let’s all do tsuvah today and come clean before God…
שלא נבוש בעוה”ז ולא לעו”ה
סוף דבר הכל נשמע
Why do many on this site, want to give the benefit of the doubt to this convicted sexual pervert? Would those same individuals have the same opinion if it was a secular person, or a gentile? These perverts exist at all religious levels, and they should be severely dealt with. I remember the case of an NCSY person, who physically abused dozens of boys and girls. The NCSY did bupkis in spite of numerous complaints. Finally, that pervert was convicted, but only served 5.5 years in prison. Afterwards, the NCSY complained that it cost them “a lot of money to investigate those cases, and make changes”. Too bad, as it should have done something years earlier!