[? 2000s Tendler] - Judaism. Women.
ABC 7,
http://abclocal. go.com/wabc/ story?section= local&id=395 2502# ,
By Nina Pineda, March 1, 2006
NEW YORK (WABC) - There's a sex scandal at a local synagogue involving a rabbi allegedly offering and giving "sex therapy" to a congregant looking for a husband.
That rabbi - from a prominent orthodox family - is now forced from his job. But now, that rabbi is fighting back, saying he can't be fired.
It's happening at a temple in New Hempstead in Rockland County. Eyewitness News Reporter Nina Pineda has the story.
Nina Pineda: "Can you confirm anything that happened with the allegation against him?"
Rabbi: "No, nobody knows anything about it."
No one would talk about the scandal in which a growing list of women say Rabbi Mordechai Tendler used his position of power to sexually harass them in or in this case, engage in sex with those seeking counsel.
The rabbi's accused of telling a young woman seeking [a] husband, to have sex with him instead so her life would open up and men would come to her.
[Posted by Kathy Shaw at 08:24 PM]
(This is the first of the Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker,
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for Wednesday, March 01, 2006
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INTENTION: A challenge to RELIGIONS to PROTECT CHILDREN
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• Priest arrested on assault charges
[1970s, ? 2000s Coonan] - RCC. Sex, violence, intimidation alleged. Women.
Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, Mass., USA),
http://'. com/apps/pbcs. dll/article?AID= /20060301/ ALERT01/ 60301007 ,
By Gerard F. Russell, March 01, 2006
DUDLEY (MA) - The pastor of St. John's Church in Worcester, who was placed on administrative leave in 2002, was arrested Tuesday and arraigned today on charges he assaulted his mother and sister at their Oxford home.
Rev. Joseph A. Coonan, 58, is charged with domestic assault and battery, assault and battery on a person over 65 years of age and one count of intimidating a witness.
A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf in the arraignment before Judge Neil G. Snider. He was released on a bail of $250 and personal recognizance. The case was continued to April 4 for a pretrial conference.
Rev. Coonan was removed from ministry at St. John's Church on Temple Street in August 2002 by then-Bishop Daniel P. Reilly after allegations of sexual misconduct from t
