RABBI YEHUDA KOLKO IS ARRESTED

Below is Rabbi Yehuda Kolko
handcuffed in police car.

At Right, the perv molester
contemplates his demise.
The frum "Jew" that he is, he makes
it home in time for shabbos after
being released on $5,000 bail
and surrendering his passport
to authorities.
December 08, 2006


FINALLY B'H!

Rabbi Yehuda Kolko (at left) should start getting ready to do some hard prison time (picture above). Child Molesters in prison are shunned upon, and usually don't last too long on the inside. Kolko's prision inmates will be extremley enthusiastic to show him what kind of treatment a bully and sexual monster such as himself deserves and recieves.


Brooklyn Rabbi Arraigned On Abuse Charges
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New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com Tip of iceberg feared in rabbi child sex rap
BY NANCIE L. KATZ and BRENDAN BROSH
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Prosecutors warned yesterday that a Brooklyn rabbi accused of sexually abusing two victims - including a young boy - may face more charges.

Joel Yehuda Kolko, 60, a former teacher and assistant principal at Yeshiva-Mesivta Torah Temimah on Ocean Parkway in Midwood, was released on $10,000 bail after he was arraigned yesterday on four counts of sexual abuse and one count of endangering the welfare of a child.

He was required to surrender his passport before he was allowed to return to his Midwood home in time for Sabbath observations.

The charges against him involve the alleged molestation of a 6-year-old boy and a 31-year-old man.

"There may be other charges with other complainants, and there is an ongoing investigation regarding Kolko," Assistant Brooklyn District Attorney Marc Fliedner said in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

A $10-million suit filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday accuses the yeshiva of harboring Kolko despite accusations that he abused children in his care there for years.

In May, three men filed suits seeking $30 million for alleged abuse the rabbi committed against them when they attended the yeshiva as children.

One of the three men was contacted by a Daily News reporter following yesterday's court action.

"I think it's 25 years later than it should have happened," the 39-year-old man said. "I know the wheels of justice are slow. I hope they crunch this guy."

The man said he personally knows of another 15 victims, and that he believes more than 100 other boys were molested by the rabbi.

Some of Kolko's former students were flabbergasted at the charges yesterday.

"I think a bunch of people are out to get him," said Aaron Tarnes, 30, a student at the yeshiva for 15 years. "I'm disturbed to hear such things against such a wonderful man."

Kolko arrived at his home on E. 22nd St. shortly after 4:15 p.m. in a silver Buick driven by his son, Avi. Kolko dashed inside without a word to waiting reporters.

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NY1 News
December 08, 2006

A Brooklyn rabbi was arraigned Friday on charges he sexually molested a 9-year-old boy at his yeshiva on Ocean Parkway.

Police charged 60-year-old Joel Kolko with four counts of sex abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. Kolko was released on $5,000 bail.

They say the boy claims he was abused during the 2002-2003 school year at the private school for boys in Midwood where Kolko works.

His family filed a $10 million lawsuit against the school, claiming it protected Kolko from other sexual abuse allegations. The school denies the allegations.

"At no time did the yeshiva have any knowledge of anything alleged against Rabbi Kolko, nor did any parent ever come to raise a complaint," said Yeshiva executive director Rabbi Yaakov Applegrad. "Rabbi Kolko is no longer employed at the school. If something did indeed happen, we sympathize with the child and are confident the judicial system will handle matters appropriately."

Both the school and the rabbi face another lawsuit by two former students who say Kolko molested them 25 years ago.
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NYC Rabbi Arrested For "Decades Of Alleged Sexual Abuse"

December 8, 2006 8:41 p.m. EST

Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer

New York, NY (AHN) - A Brooklyn rabbi has been arrested following the molestation of a young boy.

Joel Yehuda Kolko, 60, is being sued for "decades of alleged sexual abuse" yet will currently face criminal charges for molesting a 9-year-old boy and an adult man.

Jeffrey Herman, a Florida lawyer says, "The streets of New York are safer tonight."

Herman, who is suing on behalf of three adult victims and the child, explains, "If the allegations are true, he's been an active predator for 30 years. Finally, justice will be served, and the children of New York will be protected."

According to the New York Daily News, special NYPD child abuse cops arrested Kolko at his Midwood home about 4 p.m. yesterday, just hours after the paper ran a story about the latest allegation against him. Kolko molested a boy of "early elementary age" at the school during the 2003-2004 academic year, the suit charged. Similar suits against Kolko and the Yeshiva that seek $30 million in damages were filed in May on behalf of men now 30, 40 and 50 years old who say the rabbi victimized them as children.

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1010 WINS - On-Air, Online, On Demand

Rabbi Yehuda Kolko at time of his arrest courtesy of channel 4. Bail Set for Brooklyn Rabbi Accused of Sex Abuse

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A rabbi at an all-boys Orthodox school was charged Friday with sexually abusing a young student, prosecutors said. Joel Kolko, 60, was ordered held on $10,000 bond or $5,000 cash bail, a spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney's office said. The charges handed down in Brooklyn criminal court include sexual abuse in the first, second and third degrees as well as endangering the welfare of a child. 1010 WINS AUDIO: Al Jones reports from Brooklyn Kolko, who was arrested Thursday night, taught at the private school, Yeshiva-Mesivta Torah Temimah, for years. The accuser, now age 9, reported he was abused during 2002 and 2003, police said. Yaakov Applegrad, executive director of the school, said Kolko was no longer working there. "If something did indeed happen, we sympathize with the child and are confident that the judicial system will handle it appropriately," he told 1010 WINS. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in state Supreme Court on behalf of the accuser claims the school protected the rabbi, also known as Yehuda Kolko, despite knowing he had molested students, said Jeffrey Herman, a lawyer for the child. The suit seeks more than $10 million in damages. Two of Kolko's former students filed another lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court in May claiming he had molested them nearly 20 years ago. That suit, in which the plaintiffs seek $10 million each, alleges Kolko victimized multiple children. One of the former students in the May suit detailed the abuse claims in a New York magazine article. The magazine said Kolko had refused to comment. Messages seeking comment from Kolko and his lawyer were not immediately returned Friday. About 1,000 boys are enrolled at the school. Photo Courtesy wnbc.com.

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Orthodox Rabbi Arrested for Sex Abuse

WNYC Newsroom

NEW YORK, NY December 08, 2006 —An Orthodox school rabbi has been arrested on charges he sexually abused a little boy. 60 year-old Joel Kolko taught at a Brooklyn yeshiva for boys.

Police say he was arrested on 4 counts of sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a minor. The 9 year-old boy reported he was abused during 2002 and 2003.

Kolko also has been named in two related lawsuits. He hasn't spoken out against the allegations.

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Brooklyn Rabbi Arrested On Sexual Assault Charges

BY BRADLEY HOPE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
December 8, 2006
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/44810

A Brooklyn rabbi was arrested on charges of sexual assault of a child yesterday, police officials said.

Rabbi Yehudi Kolko, 60, who taught at an all-boys school, in May was the target of a $20 million lawsuit by a former student. On Tuesday, another student filed a lawsuit seeking $10 million. Both students say Mr. Kolko sexually assaulted them.

Mr. Kolko was arrested yesterday at his home at 1249 E. 22nd St. following a long-term investigation, police said.

He was charged with four counts of sexual abuse, including two felony counts, and endangering the welfare of a child, police said.

The most recent sexual abuse was allegedly against an 8-year-old boy, who says he was abused while he was in the first grade during the 2002-03 school year, police said.

Mr. Kolko has been on administrative leave since May from Torah Temimah, a school for Orthodox boys school in Brooklyn with 1,000 students. He was also active in the school's summer camp, Camp Silver Lake, according to an article in New York magazine.

According to the magazine article, he attracted suspicion among religious leaders in the mid-1980s for similar allegations. A dozen children reported to counselors that Mr. Kolko had abused them, but those accounts did not lead to a criminal investigation, the article said.

As of yesterday evening, Mr. Kolko had not been arraigned on the charges in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

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NYC rabbi charged with sex abuse of 9-year-old boy

December 8, 2006, 8:15 PM EST

NEW YORK -- A rabbi at an all-boys Orthodox school was charged Friday with sexually abusing a young student, prosecutors said.

Joel Kolko, 60, was ordered held on $10,000 bond or $5,000 cash bail, a spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney's office said. The charges handed down in Brooklyn criminal court include sexual abuse in the first, second and third degrees as well as endangering the welfare of a child.

Kolko, who was arrested Thursday night, taught at the private school, Yeshiva-Mesivta Torah Temimah, for years. The accuser, now age 9, reported he was abused during 2002 and 2003, police said.

Yaakov Applegrad, executive director of the school, said Kolko was no longer working there.

"If something did indeed happen, we sympathize with the child and are confident that the judicial system will handle it appropriately," he told WINS-AM 1010.

A lawsuit filed Wednesday in state Supreme Court on behalf of the accuser claims the school protected the rabbi, also known as Yehuda Kolko, despite knowing he had molested students, said Jeffrey Herman, a lawyer for the child. The suit seeks more than $10 million in damages.

Two of Kolko's former students filed another lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court in May claiming he had molested them nearly 20 years ago. That suit, in which the plaintiffs seek $10 million each, alleges Kolko victimized multiple children.

One of the former students in the May suit detailed the abuse claims in a New York magazine article. The magazine said Kolko had refused to comment.

Messages seeking comment from Kolko and his lawyer were not immediately returned Friday.

About 1,000 boys are enrolled at the school.
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December 9, 2006

Brooklyn Rabbi Is Arraigned on Charges of Sexual Abuse

By DARYL KHAN

A rabbi charged with sexual abuse of a minor at a school in Brooklyn walked out of criminal court yesterday after posting $5,000 bail.

Rabbi Joel Kolko, 60, a former teacher and assistant principal at Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Temimah, an all-boys private school on 555 Ocean Parkway in Midwood, was arraigned on two counts of sexual abuse in the first and second degree and one count of endangering the welfare of a child in two separate episodes — one with a boy who was 6 at the time, the other with a man, 31.

During the arraignment, an assistant district attorney, Marc Fliedner, said Rabbi Kolko placed his hand on a 6-year-old student’s penis during school hours in October 2003. In January 2005, Mr. Fliedner said, Rabbi Kolko forced an adult to place his hand on the rabbi’s penis, also inside the school. Neither of the complainants was named in court papers because of the nature of the allegations.

Civil lawsuits filed by the adult in the case, along with three other adult victims, alleges a pattern of sexual abuse for decades and an effort to cover it up. Jeffrey Herman, a Miami-based lawyer who filed the lawsuits, said yesterday was a difficult for the plaintiffs.

“They’ve been living with this their entire adult lives,” Mr. Herman said. “They came forward to make sure he wouldn’t do this to anyone else, and for them to see another child has been abused is devastating for them.”

In a radio interview yesterday on WINS-AM 1010, Yaakov Applegrad, executive director of the school, said, “If something did indeed happen, we sympathize with the child and are confident that the judicial system will handle it appropriately.”

The rabbi’s lawyer, Scott Tulman, declined to comment on the charges after the hearing, but said, “My client will be fine when he’s able to celebrate Shabbat with his family.” Judge Richard N. Allman ordered Rabbi Kolko to surrender his passport and to post $5,000 bail. As he left court surrounded by his lawyers and court officers, he did not respond to a flurry of questions from reporters.

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Sex-rap rabbi is busted in Brooklyn

BY NANCIE L. KATZ DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

A Brooklyn rabbi who is being sued for decades of alleged sexual abuse was busted yesterday. Joel Yehuda Kolko, 60, likely will face felony charges in the most recent case - the alleged molestation of a 9-year-old boy - as well as the abuse of an adult man, a law enforcement source said. "The streets of New York are safer tonight," said Jeffrey Herman, a Florida lawyer who is suing the rabbi for more than $40 million on behalf of three adult victims and the child. "If the allegations are true, he's been an active predator for 30 years. Finally, justice will be served, and the children of New York will be protected." Special NYPD child abuse cops arrested Kolko at his Midwood home about 4 p.m. yesterday, just hours after the Daily News ran a story about the latest allegation against him. "There was some concern he was going to flee," a law enforcement source said. A $10 million lawsuit filed at Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday accuses Yeshiva-Mesivta Torah Temimah on Ocean Parkway, where the rabbi taught, of harboring Kolko despite accusations that he has abused children in his care for years. Kolko molested a boy of "early elementary age" at the school during the 2003-2004 academic year, the suit charged. Similar suits against Kolko and the Yeshiva that seek $30 million in damages were filed in May on behalf of men now 30, 40 and 50 years old who say the rabbi victimized them as children. Originally published on December 8, 2006

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New York Post

'PERV' RABBI IN SHUL SHOCKER

By HEIDI SINGER, ALEX GINSBERG, MURRAY WEISS and JOHN MAZOR

December 9, 2006 -- A Brooklyn yeshiva covered up a rabbi's long history of child molestation and threatened parents and children who tried to end the abuse, it was charged yesterday.

Officials of Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Temimah knew of Rabbi Joel Kolko's attacks on young boys but ignored them because he was cleared by a rabbinical court, said lawyer Jeffrey Herman, who represents some of the alleged victims.

Details of Kolko's lurid past rocked the close-knit Jewish community yesterday as the rabbi was arraigned on new sex abuse charges yesterday.

They involved a 6-year-old boy - and a 31-year-old man, who says he was abused as a boy and again when he went back to visit the school last year.

The yeshiva denied a coverup.

Head Rabbi Lipa Margulies "never received any hard evidence about anything about Rabbi Kolko," said Avi Moskowitz, the attorney for Margulies and the yeshiva.

But Herman told The Post that when one boy considered making a public accusation against Kolko, his father got a threatening phone call from the yeshiva's leader.

The victim said Margulies "told his father that if your son doesn't keep his mouth shut, I can't guarantee the safety of your other children," Herman said.

"It's very scary stuff," he said. "All of a sudden, kids were afraid to come forward."

Word of the scandal first broke in May when Kolko, who is 60 and has 18 grandchildren, was hit by a $20 million lawsuit. Two former students filed the suit, charging they were molested more than 25 years ago.

One of the accusers, David Framowitz, 48, said he had been abused by Kolko at least 15 times over two years, both at the yeshiva and in the front seat of a Plymouth driven by the rabbi.

Kolko was arrested Thursday on the new charges, including allegedly touching the 6-year-old at the yeshiva on Ocean Parkway in Midwood.

He was also charged with attacking the 31-year-old man, who was one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in May.

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Joel Kolko, 60, taught at the private school for boys, Yeshiva-Mesivta Torah Temimah, and was arrested on four counts of sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a minor, police said.

CBS

Rabbi Pleads Not Guilty To Molestation Charges

Brooklyn Yeshiva Denies Any Knowledge Of Incidents

John Slattery
Reporting

(CBS) BROOKLYN Rabbi Joel Yehuda Kolko, 60, entered a plea of not guilty Friday afternoon after being charged in connection with molesting a 6-year-old student three years ago, and a 31-year-old former student last year. He is also accused in civil suits of molesting other students over the last three decades.

The child, who is now 9, was a student at Yeshiva-Mesivta Torah Temimahon Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, but the executive director of the yeshiva, Rabbi Yaakov Applegrad, denied any wrongdoing on the part of the school.

"At no time did the yeshiva know of anything alleged against Rabbi Kolko, nor did any parent come forward with a complaint," Applegrad said.

Kolko, who taught first grade Hebrew studies and was assistant principal, has been with the yeshiva for 37 years. He was recently fired.

Outside the yeshiva at noontime as students were being dismissed for the weekend, many young students said they like Kolko. A parent agreed.

"Two of my sons learned from him," Sander Herschkovitz said. "He's a very nice, intelligent man."

In addition to Friday's charges, the rabbi faces multi-million dollar civil suits filed by three other alleged victims, who are now adults.

"Unfortunately, I anticipated there were going to be many more victims," said attorney Jeffrey Herman, who is representing the alleged victims.

Kolko was charged with four counts of sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.

"My client will be fine when he gets home for Shabis," said Scott Tulman, Kolko's attorney.

Bail for Kolko was set at $5,000, and he was ordered to surrender his passport.

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Yeshiva Denies Knowledge Of Alleged Sexual Abuse

Respected Rabbi Faces Sex Assault Charges

Magee Hickey
Reporting

(CBS) BROOKLYN Rabbi Joel Kolko was a well-known and well-respected rabbi at the Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Temimah, according to the Yeshiva's executive director. But Kolko, also known as Yehuda, is now facing four counts of sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a minor.

Police say a 9-year-old boy is claiming that he was sexually abused by Rabbi Kolko when he was in first grade during the 2002-2003 school year.

For 37 years, Rabbi Kolko, was a first grade Hebrew studies teacher and was also an assistant principal.

When word of these allegations of sexual abuse first surfaced last May, Rabbi Yaakov Applegrad, the executive director of the Yeshiva, said Kolko, 60, was asked to leave.

"At no time did the Yeshiva have any knowledge of anything alleged against Rabbi Kolko," said Rabbi Applegrad. "Nor did any parent ever raise a complaint against Rabbi Kolko."

Applegrad refused to answer questions, on advice of his lawyer, because a $10 million lawsuit has also been filed against the school, claiming the Yeshiva protected Rabbi Kolko and failed to protect the first grader from sexual abuse and what the lawsuit claims were "lewd and lascivious acts," despite knowing the rabbi's "dangerous propensities."

"If something did happen, we sympathize with the child and are confident that the judicial system will handle the matter appropriately," Rabbi Applegrad said.

Some people who live in the community were upset by the arrest:

"It's a big shame for the Jewish community for something to happen like this," said one man, who did not want to be identified.

"It's horrible," Brooklyn resident Louise Geller said. "I'm really surprised that something like this would happen here. I live here because it's safe."

Rabbi Kolko is also being sued by two former students in Federal Court.

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Brooklyn school rabbi accused of molesting boy

December 7, 2006, 11:35 PM EST

NEW YORK -- A rabbi at an Orthodox school was arrested Thursday on charges he sexually abused a little boy, police said.

Joel Kolko, 60, taught at the private school for boys, Yeshiva-Mesivta Torah Temimah, and was arrested on four counts of sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a minor, police said. The 9-year-old boy reported he was abused during 2002 and 2003, police said.

A lawsuit was filed Wednesday against the school, claiming it protected the rabbi, also known as Yehuda Kolko, and accusing it of "failing to protect" the boy "from sexual assault and lewd and lascivious acts" despite knowing Kolko's "dangerous propensities," the Daily News reported on its Web Site. The suit was seeking $10 million in damages.

Another lawsuit, filed in federal court in May by two of Kolko's former students, claims the rabbi molested them nearly 20 years ago, according to published reports. The suit, which is seeking $20 million in damages, alleges Kolko victimized nearly 15 children.

One of the former students filing the suit appeared in a New York magazine article in May detailing the abuse claims. The magazine said Kolko had refused to comment.

On Thursday night, Kolko, who was handcuffed, bowed his head and didn't speak when he was led from a Brooklyn police station to a waiting car before his arraignment.

There was no answer at a telephone number for Kolko listed at the home address provided by police, and an after-hours message left at the school was not immediately returned.

Kolko was defended by one of his former students at the school, where about 1,000 boys are enrolled.

"As a person, he doesn't fit the criteria," Abraham Birnbaum told WNBC-TV. "I have known him for 10 years. My brother was his student, and he never had that view of him."
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