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Harsh indictment awaits 'abusive rabbi'
Guy Ronen
Published: 28.10.09, 00:58
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1. A light unto all other nations
Avi ,   Israel   (10.28.09)
This monster and his wife should never see the light of day. Naturally he plays the victim and says Israel is extraditing him because hes religious, yeh right ! Hope he get a very long sentence he can join his pals from Shas in jail where he can be assured 3 kosher meals aday !
2. Abusing children is ILLEGAL and the faux "rabbi" will find
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (10.28.09)
prison full of sexual abusers, LIKE HIS CELL MATE. I'm sure he can learn to be a good wife.
3. Walking turd! May he walk the long last
Joe ,   Ohio, USA   (10.28.09)
mile to the gallows. I have no sympathy for anyone who abuses a child
4. Child abuse in G-ds eyes is abomable...
Galut ,   Selah   (10.28.09)
there NO EXCUSE in torah for it..... period legitimate discipline appropiate to the level of age and offense is OK..... but the kinds of things this Child abuser Elior Chen is accused of doing is abhorant.... make sure he is put away for a long time so no more children have to endure his abuse.
5. Brazil honored a court order from another country????
Rivkah   (10.28.09)
Will wonders never cease???? As long as Brazil is honoring the court requests of other nations for the legal custody and extradition of a non-Brazilian citizen to his homeland, send back Sean Goldman to his biological and legal father who has been held prisoner by a Brazilian stepfather after the birth mother died.
6. you, sir, committed the most illegal of acts
ralph   (10.28.09)
7. Not a "rabbi"; Not a Jew; Not a Human
Shalom   (10.28.09)
This man is a perverted, twisted, masochistic monster. Don't use the effort in typing out the word "rabbi" with reference to him. It's like Gaydemak giving himself rabbinical ordination and claiming that he's "clergy"
8. Why "faux" rabbi? Please stop playing fools!
Yonatan ,   Haifa   (10.28.09)
Why "faux" rabbi? Please stop playing fools! He is a rabbi, one of various ones.
9. Need to correct the English: mother did not "Frame" him
Eric ,   Tel Aviv   (10.28.09)
Frame implies that she gave false testimony, what she did was implicate or accuse him as no one (at this point) believes that he did not do the crime he is accused of.
10. harsh indictment
debbie ,   israel   (10.28.09)
This beast is suddenly invoking the law to protect himself. He didn't worry about the "law" when he tortured those pitiful children, leaving at least one in a vegetative state. Does he think the law should protect him now, and let him live peacefully in Brazil, while those poor children never had anyone to protect them, not even their sorry excuse for a "mother." Children should be taught by example, love and compassion, not burning, beating, cutting, making them eat feces and urine, and god knows what else he did to them. If they ever have children, they will probably be horrible abusers themselves because of what was done to them. I hope he stays behind lock and key til his last day on earth. He's ruined these childrens' chances for a good and happy life.
11. surely God has heard the cry of the children he abused!
(10.28.09)
and the mighty sword of God will punish this man!
12. #8
observer   (10.28.09)
Just like you are a rabbi. Can you sort out a diploma for others as well?
13. Abused? Ya right, total and complete BS
David ,   NY, US   (10.28.09)
This is what really happened: "Hen and a few followers are accused of burning and cutting toddlers as part of a purification ritual in the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit in February and March 2008." According to http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569784,00.html But of course ynet won't tell you that (and phrase it in ways that make it sound relatively acceptable). They'll also say his last name is "Chen" rather than the actual "Hen," to make you think he's closer to Asian than Jewish.
14. #9 Eric - That was Hebrish Not English
Ahmad Cohen ,   Ibn Mousa Halevi   (10.28.09)
The word comes from Misgeret frame and not the English false accusation. If you need further explanation on this "Let's speak postcards" - Bo Nedaber Gluyot
15. Well, he looks religious....
Chaim ,   Israel   (10.28.09)
but full of dead man's bones. Whatever punishment the courts have for this man, cannot compare what is waiting for him in eternity. It's not very pleasant to face an angry God.
16. #13 to defend an abuser of children is 2 participate...
(10.28.09)
in his crimes. The evidence against this man is overwhelming! He has abused many children and destroyed the lives of the fools who followed him. And we won't even talk about the fact that testimony has been given which indicates that he had forbidden sexual relations!
17. #13 David NY US
Pauline ,   Israel   (10.28.09)
His surname is Chen, remember it is a translation from the Hebrew and in Israel "Ch" is not pronounced the same as it is in English speaking countries. An English pronunciation of "Ch" would be like in the word Chinese or chin, check or change ..... hence to your ears it sounds Asian. You're getting yourself worked up over nothing .... the crimes he is accused of are what should be the focus of your anger and are more serious than the silly allegation of trying to make Chen sound Asian.
18. #8 Ynet gives him the title "rabbi" to make Rabbis look bad
Cohen   (10.28.09)
He must be the rabbi of fools like you, Yonatan.
19. EVIDENCE
CAROL ,   EILAT   (10.28.09)
HOPE THAT THIS EVIDENCE IS NOT ERASED HE SHOULD BE GIVEN LIFE NO EXCUSES
20. #11 - I dunno about that
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (10.28.09)
...I can think of lots of cases where children were abused and no punishment for the abusers... :( And puleze Louize don't tell me that what happens or doesn't happen on earth doesn't count.
21. To 5
Uri Lam ,   Jerusalem   (10.28.09)
There is a saying in Brazil: one thing is one thing, another is another. The situation of the boy Sean Goldman is subjudice and is absolutely different from that of Elior. Brazilian judges don´t make only what another country says; it judge by itself what considers the right thing to do. In Elior Chen´s case, it´s obvious. Not at Goldman´s case.
22. #8,He may be your rabbi, but he has no ordination and no God
Reb L. Yell ,   Carmiel, Israel   (10.28.09)
23. #13,Dubi you should share his cell to get the real story!
Reb L. Yell ,   Carmiel, Israel   (10.28.09)
24. Trial by Media
Eugen ,   London England   (10.28.09)
as the article says he's ACCUSED of very serious crimes, but why are you all passing judgment? Is that because he's dressed as an haredi jew? You are all sick!
25. #24 - we are not the ones who are sick -
Pauline ,   Israel   (10.28.09)
SICK are the things he is being accused of.
26. 21 Uri Lam: You and Brazil judges don't think it is right
Rivkah   (10.29.09)
for a biological son of a legal marriage (not a bastard) to be returned to his biological and legal father after the mother kidnapped the child, divorced the father, remarried, died in childbirth, and all this time Sean Goldman's father has spent nearly half a million dollars (mostly donated by sympathizers) trying to see his only child and son and be given sole custody from the Brazilian kidnappers who call child abduction justice? Both cases of Elior Chen and Sean Goldman involve alleged CRIMINALITY. Brazil signed an extradition treaty which supercedes national law to return abducted children to the legal parent. I spit on Brazil and will not go to the Olympics there and will discourage anyone I know from going there unless Sean Goldman is returned to his legal and biological father and paid a settlement by the kidnapper stepfather and Brazilian Injustice System. BOYCOTT BRAZIL!
27. To #25
Eugen ,   London   (10.29.09)
You are 100% right! And I am not saying that he won't be found guilty as charged, but what right has anyone to jump on a bandwagon and assume someone guilty until the COURT has handed down its sentence? My question was is that only because he's dressed as an haredi? The question remains unaswered
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