The annual meeting of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law (ACPIL), held in Washington D.C. this week, included a panel on international family law issues. The discussion included:
Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn turning to civil authorities in child abuse cases
Paul Vitello reports in the New York Times that ultra-orthodox haredim who have long avoided reporting crimes within their community have begun to turn to police and prosecutors in cases of child sexual abuse. Vitello describes measures taken by District Attorney Charles Hynes to build ties within the community; the story indicates that prosecutors in Brooklyn have pursued 26 of these cases this year – a small percentage of the total number of these cases, which run about 700 per year, but a d