Israel – The Supreme Court determined Thursday that Abraham Mondrowitz, who is accused of committing severe sex crimes against minors in the US up to 25 years ago, will not be extradited.
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Mondrowitz, a psychologist by trade, resided in the US until 1984, when he immigrated to Israel. A few months after his arrival he was indicted in his home country on charges of sexual abuse of minors.
In 1985 the US asked Israel to extradite Mondrowitz, but the appeal was denied because at the time the crimes with which he was charged were not part of the extradition agreement between the two countries.
The agreement was amended in 2007, and in September of that year an additional appeal for Mondrowitz’s extradition was filed.
The suspected sex offender appealed to the Supreme Court, and Justice Ayala Procaccia accepted his appeal. She explained that the extradition could not be approved due to the statute of limitations applicable to the charges, and that it would harm the suspect’s right to due process.
“Due to the passage of time until the extradition process could begin, because of the circumstances in which the obstacle in the agreement was not removed when it should have been, we must reject the extradition appeal,” Procaccia wrote in her verdict.
She added that the case exposed a tension that exists between bringing criminals to justice for the public good and assisting other countries in bringing to justice defendants believed to have committed offences within their territory, and the enforcement of legal norms in Israel designed to secure due process.
“The delay in the appellant’s extradition process – currently measured at 23 years – which could have been prevented by an earlier amendment of the extradition agreement, places a legal and ethical obstacle before the completion of the extradition,” the judge concluded.
Failed Justice…….Perhaps the next step in the legal system, is what is commonly referred to as “Street Justice”.
Oh vai ! I hope he does tshuva there by going to the kotel every morning at 4 and cry’s that moshiach shold come already
I understand that the truth has prevailed in this case.
B.H. one Jew less in jail
we can take a lesson from this and have less trust in the media etc. and Looshin Horah…………………
Baruch hashem…. I bet u he didn’t have it easy in jail…..he probably wouldn’t have gotten 28 months in the USA. (He has allready been in prison for that time.)
I hope time allready served will be justice served.
y is Israel’s supreme court always on the wrong side of every issue…street justice should have been applied here a long time ago..then the extradtion issue would then have been moot
Is there any hope that he can remain incarcerated until too old to repeat his atrocities? I have had direct contact with several of victims, and I hope there is a way that he can be successfully removed from society. I can accept the technicalities of the ruling, but there must be a way to be sure that predators like him never see the light of day.
Only hkb”h who created emes,knows the truth! And whatever punishment if any he deserves, the ribono shel olam will take care of it. However from a legal perspective, I side with the judge! She brilliantly interprets the law. Wow, Well written!
יש דין ויש דיין
we don’t need any justes system
And the menuval who forced me to kiss him after molesting me for an hour str8 at the tender age of 12 gets off scott free while I deal with the effects he left me forever. May all those rabbonim, family and askonim who protected him at any time throughout this long saga meet a very bitter end. Yemach shemo V’Zichro. Those who need to know, know who I am and I am contemplating going public and besmirching our society as REVENGE.
Thanx to all those fake jews and fake rabbis who refused to follow the ethical and torah way espoused by Rav Avigdor Miller ZT”L. Torahs Emes died when he did.
And I’m sure all you self hating jews would have been very relieved for him as well if he had molested YOUR child!!
y is everyone so happy? this guy is a monster and ruined the lived of so many ppl,
ppl think u get over it and move on, U DONT, it effects u for the rest of ur life as well as ur spouse and the ppl around you!!
I’m glad he is not being extradited, the guy looks like he’s already been through hell, what do you want from this poor yidele. im not condoning his actions (if its true), but i dont think its right to destroy his life because of what he did 20 years ago, if he hasnt done it since and is a nice guy he should be let go. Now let’s hear some hate from you guys, i know it coming.
To #’s 3 and 4: As a victim of his, I can assure you Justice has not been served and it is far from a kiddush hashem. This monster is vile, disgusting scum of the earth who has not been punished a mashehu of what he deserves for the numerous lives he’s destroyed.
He wasn’t a psychologist (he was a fake) and he didn’t “immigrate”, he ran after his indictment. This article is so full of fail.
BEWARE, this adds fuel to those prosecutors and Judges that refuse bail to Jews.
Paying a hansom sum to those who were harmed, would be more useful, at this juncture.
psychologists say that this is a mental illness and is not even easily “healed” with therapy. A sex criminal should be watched for the remainder of his life or others will suffer, and then they repeat it. Partly it is repeated because the person who received it, is too shamed to go for help as well. Once it stays within the mind, and it is not shared with a Rabbi or professional, the person is likely to G-d forbid repeat it.
There are special psychologists for this. There are free and frum/Jewish help-lines for this, please, people, find them and call them. Do not repeat it. You will help yourselves and others.
If he’s guilty or not is up to hashem. The judge however, brilliantly wrote her decision. From a legal point of view, I think she’s right. And if he’s guilty, hashem will take care of him, one way or another.
Disgrace. Mondrowitz ran away from justice (leaving a bunch of scarred victims in his wake), and now the Israeli courts are making sure that he can continue to evade justice. In abuse cases, it is not uncommon for there to be a great deal of time elapsed before a victim is able to speak up– the judge has used a consequence of this man’s abuse as a shield to protect him from the laws he evaded. This is a miscarriage of justice, and the group of people here who seem to be rejoicing over this travesty should pray that their own children never fall into the clutches of a monster like this.
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 220;but i dont think its right to destroy his life because of what he did 20 years ago 221;
Based on this flawed reasoning, we should not be pursuing those aging Nazis (yimach shmom), for their crimes that were committed 65 years ago!
Tzedek tzedek tirdoff.
This makes me sick to my stomache!!!! A yid has issues and runs to israel. THE LAND SHOULD SPIT HIM OUT!!!!!
why are we gossiping like this. For all those people that where hurt by him , my heart really goes out for you , but what is it going to help if we smear him again and again its the past, and there is nothing you can do about it. If you want a real revenge then make sure your kids and other kids dont get hurt by other dangerous people that are out there. and for all the other gossipers ,this is pure loshon hora.
Mazal tov Avraimel and mazal tov Mondrowitz family. After so many years the truth has finally come out. You lived in Israel for over 20 years and nobody heard not one thing should happen. But no, there were people bent upon torturing you forever. I see writing about revenge. For all you so called tzadikim out there that wanted to kill this fellow, the Torah prohibits revenge. But you guys have your own Torah, bent to your demented needs and that is why you go further to slander and shame even Gedolei Yisroel. So there we are, does that not prove that the people going after Avraimel are low lives and trouble makers. They , yes they are the ones that do not keep the holy Torah. Avraimel who for over twenty years has not done anything against the Torah was slandered and hurt but finally justice prevailed. The Israeli Supreme Court finally did something right. Avraimel and Mondrowitz family all I say to you is brocho v’hatzlocho vchol tuv for many many long years.
Hashem Mi Shepora has punished him for whatever he may have allegedly done. He has absolutely no money nor any parnosa. Chazal say that a poor person is considered as if he were dead. He sat in a holding cell for a year with the hardest criminals and then another 14 months in a jail. Not very good for anybody’s physical or mental well-being. I don’t know if justice has been served in the eyes of the public, but Hashem’s justice is what counts. yesh din v’yesh dayan.
He has not one in Beis Din Shel Matoh or Shel Malloh.
You could still take him oi Dintorah in Israel, & look him in the face, and tell him what he did & how it affected you. You may be able to file a civil suit, & seeing the ongoing ramifications of his alledged crimes are still damaging, & the fact you thought he would face trial here in the US may still make that an option.
I think a rash of Dinei Torah to keep him busy & to be confronted by all those tormented, will keep him busy enough, like Demanjuke & punished more than a jail cell, with a TV & internet.
I don’t think for one minute this guy is sleeping at night, and probably never will. I don’t envy his life fear anger, & guilt he may well be living through.
What casidus applied pressure to the isreali system to shield this menuval from justice.
If the statue of liitation is envoked that is for the US court to decide , not a paid off Isreali judge. Wake up, the illiterate comments posted have no consideration for the pathologies this creep has caused. This sick ILLEGAL behavior needs to be rooted out from our community. Anything less than that is dishonest to the peoples whom he hurt. If his victims are married they most likely have intimacy issues with their spouses, perhaps distantant and not trusting relationships with their children and society. Additionaly, quite a number of victims might also experience inappropriate behaviors with available published material and on the internet and. You might surmised I am a professional and licensed mental
provider.
This judge should rot in hell with Mondrowitz! 1 victim committed suicide, and another died of drug overdose… and those are just the ones we know of. This monster is a murderer. He took away from these children the will to live. He walked them to the edge of the cliff and left them there dangling. He deserves no peace. The families and individuals he destroyed are countless. Many of his victims are now off the derech. Futures generations in these families will not lead Torah lives because of this animal.
I can only hope he lives to 120 and that his life is filled with nothing but pain and suffering. He should feel the pain he caused others every single day. He should remember the children of those who went off the derech and know they do issurim because of his hand. If he was in any way remorseful, he would come here to the US, face his accusers, beg for forgiveness, and accept the punishment. If not, he has done no teshuvah.
The idea that this man could walk the streets in peace sickens me. He should be ostracized and spit on everywhere he goes such that his life would be better in prison. We ostracize a man for not giving a get, but not for this? Shameful!
This judge is an imbecile. There is zero statute of limitations, as he was indited and fled country. State Dept immediately requested extradition. Statute then ceases until person is brought back. You cannot escape by running away.
Well done, Israeli Supreme Court.
You’ve just handed plenty of ammunition to requests for remand against American Jews with strong ties to Israel.
I hope you’re feeling happy with your decision.
He may have gotten away with his crimes here on this earth. I am sure that he will get what is coming to him in the nex world.
YU is guilty of just discussing toeiva – how come these guys who engage in toeva against boys are OK?
Shame on the state of israel, and shame on you Gerrer Rebbe, for having your thugs apply pressure to the system so that a madman like mondrowitz is now scott free at home, and will be able to rape many more innocent boys, israel! Whatever happened to the “light unto nations”? shame on the jewish people! And to you moishe the above poster, you are 1 sick individual, as a gerrer chusid that I am, I am ashamed with the higher ups in ger in what they did to protect this sadistic monster!
For the last fifteen or so minutes I was sitting in shock, I couldn’t even start to compose my view, with real sorry and pain and yes some anger I would yell with all my capacity, that justice was not done, and this ruling will encourage other pedophiles to continue with their stalking of other children, and here in these pages we have not just a small segment of the orthodox community who are celebrating the escape of justice by an apparent pedophile, with your celebration you are noting more then a vehicle to the pedophile, and you all should be held accountable, I am so discouraged that I feel like a knife had been stuck into my heart, and my blood drained out, when we have so called religious people celebrate the injustice, why am I here, is there any purpose in life more important then to protect our children? It is transparent to me some of you lost your way, what it will take I don’t know but it all is due to the radicalization of our religion.
“Call me Abe”, this is why I vehemently disagree with your supposition that we should not judge the accused on the backs of victims who are only children, if you cover it up the next step on the slippery slope is celebrate the wrongs perpetrated by the Israeli court.
“The suspect’s right to due process”???? HA! HA HA HA!!!!!! So a Palestinian may be held without access to counsel and without charges being filed against him for up to 90 (ninety!) days, even if his “crime” was benign, non-violent political activism, or even if he was just picked up in an sweep and held for the crime of being proximate to a real terrorist (PA territories are some of the most densely populated in the world, BTW). Meanwhile, the courts jump through hoops ensuring the rights of a pedophile to due process. What’s the message here? That Jews should prevent gentiles from imposing justice on a Jew, no matter what the case may be? Perhaps this theory also permits speculation about whether its preferable to have one’s child raped by a frummie as opposed to a goy or epikoran?
I love Israel and I served in the IDF even though the last three generations of my family were born in the states, but this article fills me with so much rage towards Zionism and its preferential treatment of Jews (and how all this looks in public) that I just don’t know what to think. As priorities, blood and soil have no place in front of basic decency.
when Rav Yankov , z’l was alive, he privately confided in a very few that if one of us were to go to E”Y and dispose of this monster, it would be a MITZVAH!!!!
Here forward, Israel should be known as the land of milk and honey and pedophiles, the only glimmer of hope I see that due to this ruling all the American pedophiles will on mass move to Israel, at lest our children would be safe, it is time to inform the masses that if you run to Israel you are save, good for them and sorry for the children in Israel.
If this poor yidile should be free because his crimes were so long ago, what about the nazis who did their dirty work more than 60 years ago. Should they be given the same treatment?
My best friend since i was 13 was one of his victims. Messed up his mind as im sure you understand. He died at the age of 35. Drug related. If not for mondrowitz, he would still be alive today. May mondrowitz die a horrible and painful death.
What’s even sadder than the story itself are comments 2, 3, 4, 8…and I’m sure more, but I got disgusted and stopped reading…I’m with #1 .
Yes, this criminal should have been in prison a long time ago. However, for those contemplating it, there is another name for “Street Justice” – murder. When the Mikdash was standing he probably would have been executed, but currently it is forbidden even for Bais Din to kill.
If someone would kill this person (I hesitate to say “man”) he would be guilty and suffer the consequences. Why should someone whose life was harmed by this person harm himself even further? Let the Dayan HaEmes deal with him – He will do a much more thorough job. If someone feels like killing him, that is understandable, but much better to go for therapy and renew your life.