NYPD Detains Rabbi For Letting His Kids Go To The Store Alone, Released Without Charges

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BROOKLYN, NY (VINnews) – A prominent Brooklyn Chabad rabbi got himself into trouble Sunday after cops stumbled upon three of his unaccompanied children on their way to a nearby bodega, The NY Daily News reports.

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According to the story, Rabbi Noah Chakoff of Chabad Of Dumbo was arrested for endangering the welfare of a child after NYPD officers returned the three children — 11, 8, and a 2 year old in a stroller — from the deli at Jay St. and Front St. just a few blocks away from the family’s Dumbo home around 11:00 a.m. Sunday.

Defense attorney Jason Goldman representing Rabbi Chakoff, called the arrest disturbing, “given the pandemic are we really using our resources and first responders to process someone like this, requiring officers to attend to him for hours and hours when they could be doing something else related to the pandemic?” this is concerning and disturbing. said Goldman.

According to Goldman, Brooklyn prosecutors declined to prosecute the case, and Chakoff was released before seeing a judge with the charges dropped.


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Joe miller
Joe miller
3 years ago

I’m not sure really how it’s relevant but for some reason reading the story comes to my mind when they come to the neighborhood before Jewish holidays Writing tickets like crazy for double parking but when you drive around on Sundays on different streets where you see they are double parked in triple Park Amd parked on sidewalks by Churches and other locations they never seem to be any cops In those location enforcing the law

Respkt
Respkt
3 years ago

I once got pulled over and ticketed in the middle of the night upstate NY and cop said it’s deer season and not safe to speed. It was only minutes after I continued on at the speed limit that a deer leapt in front of my car but due to my normal speed I was able to stop in time.
Sometimes, we need to react to these types of incidents as a loving message from G-d watching over us, more so than as an out of line cop.

The great divide
The great divide
3 years ago

Ooooh. Crime of the century! Someone let their kids go shopping. Terrible. We need a kol korei. We need some MO Rabbi to declare him a rodef. Yes, I’m being sarcastic. This whole social imprisoning thing has gotten completely out of control. This is just a continuation of the disconnect between the “haves” and the “have-nots”. The rich & famous and the well connected have always and will always do what they want, when they want. They rules and “concern” doesn’t apply to them. Rules are only for the little people. The lower income bracket. Leona Helmsley, at least, admitted that. The rich despise the poor and look upon them with disdain. When the rich go out, they don’t want to see any diseased peasants walking about. If they can somehow create some sort of ghetto for them and keep them out of site for good, that would be the ultimate good. A friend of mine recently called a member of his Shul on his cellphone to say hello. In the course of the conversation, he was told that he’s not in Brooklyn but in his Boca Raton home “to get away from you types”. So much for the disconnect. All this social distancing and quarantine is solely for one purpose and one purpose only. To separate the classes. To keep the lowly poor away from the priviliged Aryans. Think about that.

ah BITTER gelechter.
ah BITTER gelechter.
3 years ago

Reb Yid: Welcome to the real world where they HATE us…

ah yid
ah yid
3 years ago

I was wondering why they were putting up a barbed-wire fence around boro park. For out of towners who never have to send your kids to the store for anything you wouldn’t understand it. This is the norm in the city even among nonjews. By us, with Ke”h large families it’s very common to send children to the corner store to buy something.

Boroch
Boroch
3 years ago

Look, it is one thing for an eleven year old to watch an eight year old, and perhaps a two year old briefly in their home. However, to send an eleven year old outside, with his younger siblings, especially a two year old in a stroller, to go to the store by themselves, especially this day and age, is not too smart. I think that the Chabad Rabbi used very bad judgment in doing so. It is too bad that others did not appreciate the entire picture. In this instance, I’ll err with caution, and back the NYPD.

Judith
Judith
3 years ago

An 11 year old is not qualified to care for a two year and eight year old . Everyone needs to get out of the paranoid mentality and start following common sense and safety ordinances

Whatever
Whatever
3 years ago

Many eleven-year-olds are certainly capable of going to the store with their siblings to buy something and come home. Seriously, if the two-year-old weren’t there and they were walking to school it would have been fine. A two-year-old in a stroller is not a big deal. The police need to relax.

Mr 49er
Mr 49er
3 years ago

They were arrested for going to a bodega, not a kosher grocery store.

Yoel Kanner
Yoel Kanner
3 years ago

Not a single quote from the cops. What were the circumstances that caused them to stop and pick the kids. did someone report 3 kids aimlessly wandering the street? Did someone report 3 little kids crossing against the light? Perhaps someone saw obviously jewish kids and called the cops on some pretense just to cause trouble?
Perhaps the kids werent wearing a face covering and the cops wondered who let them out like that in a pandemic. who knows. Responsible journalism dictates that someone should try and get hold of the police and ask the obvious, “why”.

זה וזה
זה וזה
3 years ago

The good news is that the city decided it wasn’t worth getting involved in this mess. That’s the bottom line. BH all ends well. hopefully.

Unreal
Unreal
3 years ago

I’m sorry. This is INSANE. If the cops were legitimately concerned about those children, they should have accompanied them home and SPOKEN to the parents. Not handcuff their father and lead him away to jail. Anyone can see the difference between an endangered, neglected child and a capable, well taken child who was walking a few blocks down from their house. This is is complete abuse of the law, and traumatic to the children when it could have been easily fixed with a conversation.

Alan
Alan
3 years ago

Doesn’t anyone realize that we are living in New York City? The 11-year-old child might be very capable but again this is new York city. How many times have we read about cars pulling over asking kids to come over for directions? The bottom line is that this city is just not safe in most areas for 11 year old to go a couple blocks with two siblings shopping. We are is seichel?

Hamavin yavin
Hamavin yavin
3 years ago

We have only ourselves to blame when we vote for progressive candidates

Alan
Alan
3 years ago

Maybe Borough Park and Williamsberg I safe for children to walk around without adults but I’m sure not all Areas of Williamsburg and Borough Park would be considered safe. If I was a policeman I would’ve arrested The Rabbi for letting his children walk around like that, a couple of blocks no less. Any parent should have been arrested.

BillyW
BillyW
3 years ago

Let’s all scream this is blatant Anti-Semitism and see how many Sheqels we can twist out of the Goyim! If we keep it up we’ll never have to work (again?)!

Jay
Jay
3 years ago

???

Lynda With Children
Lynda With Children
3 years ago

11 year old secular children are in 6th grade.

They take the train by themselves every day, alone, to distant parts of the city to attend school.

disgusted!!!!
disgusted!!!!
3 years ago

im disgusted by some of the commenters like boroch
you obviously don’t have kids since you do not know that 11 year olds can actually be very responsible and especially with the help of an 8 year old. my heart goes out to the rabbi! may hashem bless him and the rest of klal yisroel

Was a democrat then I saw the light
Was a democrat then I saw the light
3 years ago

Your talking about dumbo not BP or williamsberg it’s not a safe area. Where they arrested the children no the father should have been for not taking care of the kids. Sorry but Aha your right the rebbe was with them

Jack
Jack
3 years ago

How people forgot about Leiby Kletzky. While this has become the norm in New York, it’s not a normal thing in today’s day and age. And when you live on the edge, it’s likely to catch up with you.

Seeker
Seeker
3 years ago

Can anyone make a case to compare or distinguish this case from that of Kletsky?

Jack
Jack
3 years ago

Why not??. An 11-year-old is not qualified to walk the public streets and take care of an 8-year-old and a 2-year-old. Once the 11-year-old is sweet talked or B.S.’d into coming over to someone’s car, there goes the rest of them.

Elephant
Elephant
3 years ago

Anybody not living in Brooklyn NY please don’t comment on this. People living in Brooklyn send their young kids to the local stores, and allow our kids to play on the local streets.