Critics of convicted sex abuser Rabbi Baruch Lanner charged that a Yeshiva University leader hid evidence of the abuse. Nineteen of Lanner’s alleged victims and their families said Rabbi Mordechai Willig hid evidence of Lanner’s abuse for more than a decade, after a rabbinical court that Willig belonged to determined in 1989 that Lanner was abusing youths, the Forward newspaper reported.
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