A suit was filed one day before the expiration of the two-year look-back period under New York's Child Victims Act by two anonymous plaintiffs against a clinical social worker and several Jewish organizations. (Full text of 75-page complaint in Doe v. Klar, (NY County Sup. Ct., filed 8/13/2021)). The Forward describes the lawsuit:
A rabbi sexually assaulted children while he was supposed to be treating them for mental health issues, and the prominent Jewish institutions he worked for covered it up, claims a lawsuit filed in New York August 13.
Rabbi Yaakov David Klar allegedly carried out his abuse while he was a social worker at Chai Lifeline, a national Jewish social services provider, and as a teacher at the Pupa Cheder in Monsey, N.Y....
Klar allegedly began years of abuse of the plaintiff in 2002, when the lawsuit alleges the defendants already knew or should have known of the rabbi’s predatory history....
Only later did they enter a “secret arrangement” to allow Klar to leave quietly — and they never reported his suspected actions to the authorities, according to the lawsuit.
