Crown Heights Resident, Shneur Zalman Osdoba, Son of CH Beis Din Member Rabbi Avraham Osdoba, Accused of Repeatedly Sexually Assaulting Minor in Gender Motivated Violence Act Suit***
Rabbi Shneur Zalman Osdoba is a resident of Crown Heights. His father, Rabbi Avrahama Osdoba, is a member of the Crown Heights Beis Din. While it's unclear what exactly Shneur Zalman's day job is, he seems to often work with his father on Kashrus and other Beis Din matters.
Warning!! Explicit Language!
According to the complaint, Plaintiff was 10 years old in 1996 when Shneur Zalman Osdoba began sexually abusing her. The complaint alleges that when Osdoba, who was 17, was in charge of watching Plaintiff, who was 10 at the time, he would enter her room while she was sleeping, sit on her bed, and taunt her, making her uncomfortable. Despite repeatedly screaming at Osdoba to get out when this happened, the complaint alleges, Osdoba continued entering Plaintiff's bedroom.
The complaint alleges that one Friday night, when Osdoba was at Plaintiff's house, Osdoba began massaging Plaintiff as she was standing on top of a bed in a bedroom in the house. According to the complaint, Osdoba proceeded to run his hands up Plaintiff's legs under her robe and inserted his finger into Plaintiff's vagina. Plaintiff states that, because she had received no sex education or ever had any discussions about sex in her sheltered community, she didn't even know what a vagina was.
Plaintiff screamed out in pain, according to the complaint, and felt confused, asking herself where his finger went, not understanding what had happened. Immediately after sexually assaulting Plaintiff, the complaint alleges, Osdoba warned Plaintiff not to tell anyone. According to the complaint, Plaintiff, distraught, fearful, and confused, agreed not to.
Osdoba then repeatedly assaulted her, according to the complaint, forcefully hugging Plaintiff and kissing her on the lips, despite Plaintiff's visible repulsion. Plaintiff alleges that on later occasions Osdoba sat Plaintiff on his lap, massaged her back, and massaged her breasts. According to the complaint, Plaintiff pushed his hands away, but Osdoba told her that her breasts looked like apples, which, Plaintiff states, made her view her appearance in a negative light given Osdoba's repeated negative comments in a similar vein about other young girls and women in the community.
The complaint alleges that Osdoba repeatedly entered Plaintiff's bedroom, sat behind her, and massaged her vulva under her underwear. The complaint further alleges that Osdoba was at times physically abusive as well, including tightly choking Plaintiff, which gave her a fear to this day of anyone touching her neck.
According to the complaint, Osdoba's sexual abuse of Plaintiff continued until 2002, when she was 16 and he was 23.
6 years later, according to the complaint, when Plaintiff was married and pregnant, she attended a Shabbos meal where Osdoba was present. Osdoba, according to the complaint, walked up behind her, placed his hands around her pregnant waist, and lifted her up off the ground. Plaintiff's husband, according to the complaint, knocked Osdoba's hands away from Plaintiff's waist and warned Osdoba to never touch her again.
Around March of 2022, according to the complaint, Plaintiff contacted E.N. (as he is identified in the complaint), a well-known advocate in the Chabad community, and told him about the abuse. E.N., according to the complaint, called Osdoba to discuss the alleged abuse, and Osdoba didn't deny it, saying that he prays for Plaintiff's healing at the Ohel, and asking what he could do for her. E.N., according to the complaint, told Osdoba that Osdoba had the key to help Plaintiff heal, but when E.N. contacted Osdoba in the future, Osdoba became defensive, denied everything, and shouted at E.N.
Shortly thereafter, the complaint alleges, Osdoba began smearing Plaintiff's reputation in the community, with the effect of turning her own family against her. He also allegedly recruited someone named A.H. to spread misinformation about Plaintiff and her husband, threaten them, and threaten Plaintiff's family if they didn't publicly support Osdoba.
12 comments:
Oy, the הרהורים רעים this causes me
"he prays for Plaintiff's healing at the Ohel" - yeah, that's what a Luvabitcher criminal does, he prays for his victim at the grave of their false messiah? Obscene.
If this story is true its still just one bad apple in a group which does much good everywhere. The Blog owner has not cited any sources for this story.
Yep that about sums up Chabad, they smear the victims
Who is the scumbag with initials AH?
I obviously don't know what really happened, but a few items in the story make it sound fishy to me. 1. She didn't know what a vagina is and she didn't know where he put his finger? Has she never used the bathroom before? 2. They were at a public shabbos seuda with her husband right there, and he grabs her in front of everybody??
The story is more than just fishy. It makes absolutely no sense. Does this girl have parents. There is no mention of them. Are they frum? What does it mean he was in charge of watching her? Do they not know of the issur yichud? She screamed, where were her parents? Knowing how he treated her, how did she let herself be alone with him until the age of sixteen? There is obviously a lot missing from this story.
All these lame excuses to protect Osdaba from dray kops who are worried about chilul shem Lubavitch but not chilul Shem Shomayim …
Experts say that many (most?) of such cases occur among people who are already acquainted, as opposed to among total strangers. Like relatives, neighbors, friends. The late leader of the Habad Lubavitch taught אלע חסידים (חב"ד-ליובאוויטש) איין משפחה, that Hasidim (Habad-Lubavitch) are (like?) one family. The Lubavitchers marry each other, so they are like all inter-related, intermarried. If not 100%, to a high degree. Especially in C.H., the ones who have belonged to the sect for a while, as opposed to new converts.
You need to read her story again, you will have your answer, for the record a frum girl of 10 would definitely not know what V is
Obviously a close relative.... Sadly
This is a long family fight. It is his sister (brother in law) who is accusing him and they were arch enemies for years. SZ was in a fight with his older brother and younger sister for years. His older brother who hated him would always stay by his sister since they had in common their hatred for SZ. People who know the brother and brother in law know them as the most shady and sick people who can't be trusted at all.
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