PROTECT The CHILDREN and NOT The CHILD MOLESTERS & PEDOPHILE

1:40Because of the ignorance of our people in that area of the world, they tried to hide the crime. This was going on for a while; you don't do this over a week. This is something that's been going on for a long time, and eventually, it became public. But they tried to hide it and hide it, and eventually, baruch Hashem, it got exposed. As the Mishnah in Pirkei Avot says, someone who desecrates Hashem's name in secret, the punishment is for Hashem to expose them to the public. We read this about six months ago or so, and baruch Hashem that this happened. She was exposed, but then she claimed to be crazy, and she went to Israel. But then a few smart people wanted to investigate this. May Hashem give her a very slow and painful death for touching little precious girls of Am Yisrael. And there's no mercy for such people. You're not allowed to have mercy for such people. It's actually a pasuk.

2:57in Tehillim as in Mishlei, it's all over the Torah: you're not allowed to have mercy for such people, not allowed to have mercy for such people. It uses the Midrash. Missionaries share how it says someone that is merciful to people that are vicious will eventually be vicious to people that are merciful. We are not allowed to be merciful unless it is appropriate. We are not even allowed to be merciful to ignorant people if they are ignorant by choice. As the Gemara in Masechet Berachot, page 33a, says, and also the Mesilat Yesharim repeats it as well: Someone who doesn't have da'at, someone who doesn't have anything in his head, we are not to be merciful on him.

4:02He chose not to have anything in his head. He chose that the only information in his head is how to build an engine for a car. He knows how to fix the oil. He knows how to go on a bus. He knows how to fix a tire. How come he doesn't know how to say Kriyat Shema? I'll tell you, he chose not to know. It's not saying to go beat him up. No one's saying to go beat him up or yell at him or make fun of him. But don't say, no, but chaval, miskain, he doesn't know. So maybe he's going to get Gan Eden anyway. No, there's no Gan Eden. I'm sorry. There's no free lunch. There's no free lunch. He chose, he has to pay the bill. Just like if you choose a bad husband or a bad wife or a bad job or a bad anything, you have to pay the bill. So Baruch Hashem, someone sent an individual to this mental hospital as a private investigator, posing as an undercover, undercover investigator, and pretended to be mentally ill as well, befriending this evil monster of a woman. And Baruch Hashem, it was uncovered that she's been lying to everyone all along. Now, Baruch Hashem, just last week the story emerged that they're working to extradite her.

5:13Israel agrees, and they're trying to comply with all the laws to extradite this sinner to the rotten jail in Australia for the rest of her life. It's a shame where she suffers, at least in this world for a little while, before Hashem takes and judges her eternally. Someone that takes advantage of little kids is not just evil; it's not just a bad thing to do. The root, the core, the source of that person is evil. There's no teshuva for such things, and such a person is mamash a shed. Such a being, a shein dalet, cannot be a human being. To hide their crimes, these teachers and principals, male or female... Such a person is mamash a sheid. It's a, it's a shein dalet. It cannot be a human being to hide their crimes, these teachers and principals, male or female. Sex offenders and pedophiles who hide their crimes are not only enabling the vicious person, the evil man, to continue their crimes, but it's also making the people who are hiding it partners in the crime, 100,000 percent.

6:19And that is why the Gemara in Masechet Rosh Hashanah, page 16, says that all of us on Rosh Hashanah are like Bnei Maron. How? We are being checked one after another, one after another, as I told you guys on Sunday. Why one after another? Because the person in the back receives the punishment and the judgment of all the people in front of him. Why? He's connected to it somehow. He's connected to it somehow. He didn't rape the girl. He didn't rape the boy, but he didn't say anything when he saw it. Oh, you didn't say anything? Why? Did you want to be friends with them? Did you want to back your boy up? Okay, Hashem will make sure to back your boy up also. You too will have the same villa in Gehinnom. not allowed to assist people. They're not allowed to assist terrorists, these spiritual terrorists that are giving the Torah a bad name, but they're also ruining these precious souls forever. There's no way that a child will ever grow up normal when he grows up into such a traumatizing experience. Now, already having, you know, people growing up in broken homes and...

7:35Growing up and when one of the parents is in jail or secular, it is already difficult enough. That's very difficult for some people to ever overcome. But once the child is touched and violated by someone they trusted because this person is supposed to be an authority figure, wearing a kippah and a suit pocket, it's a betrayal. You're worse than them. Communities must scream out, scream out against these people once and for all. Save the kids because the kids are growing up and saying, "Yeah, I hate God." Why do you hate God? What did God do to you? "Oh, He let my teacher abuse me." What do you mean? Who are you talking about? Who, what, and you find out these kids mean skinny, poor kids, and... How come you didn't tell anyone? I did tell someone. Who did you tell? I told my parents. Oh, so how come they didn't do anything? They're afraid of the local rabbi. Rabbi? What rabbi is this? Hiding criminals? Go to the cops. For such things, you have to go to the cops if the community doesn't do anything.

8:54Now yes, you should go to the rabbis, the local rabbis, right away to try to do something about it within, without killing the person, giving them a death penalty, but punish them according to the Torah. But for such things, there's really little that we can do that's not going to get somebody else arrested forever. You're practically forced to go to the cops. And if they're hiding it, this is not a community you want to grow up in. So what do we learn from all this, rabotai? There's really one main thing that we've learned many times. First of all, there's no mitzvah of saying shalom to reshaim. There's no mitzvah of saying shalom to people that are wicked. There's no mitzvah of making peace with them. That's number one. You're not a tzaddik if you call your friend a tzaddik. And he's really a rasha. In fact, the Gemara says you're a rasha for doing it. You don't have to call him a tzaddik. L'hitchanef. L'hitchanef is to kiss up. You don't have to kiss up to resha'im. It's a sin. That's number one. Number two, which is even more meaningful and more relevant to our shiur, is that today people are so sick mentally and emotionally in their minds...

10:17It's so full of tumah, so full of garbage that they've learned and consumed from movies, from internet videos, from their friends, from all the things they learned throughout their entire life, that at this stage, Rabotai, you cannot trust anyone. With or without a beard, with or without a mitpachat, modest or immodest, it's all irrelevant. You can't even trust your own family when it comes to your little kids. Always, always double-check everything. Always make sure you teach your kids to speak up. If you have one of these kids that's very shy, you have to make sure to have a lot of patience with him or her to make sure that if something looks weird or something is odd, you get the information out of them in a very nice, polite, patient way. Why? Because that kid is so ashamed of what just happened sometimes, chas v'shalom, they can live with it and only tell you when they're 20 years old and completely messed up out of their mind. It's too late already at that point.

11:23You have to be ultra, ultra careful with your kids. You have to communicate with them. You have to ask them. In general, you should also follow halacha—you know, the protocol for leaving your kids with just anybody. Not to leave your kids with just strangers. Even at school: the parent-teacher meeting—don't wait for the every-six-months parent-teacher conference. Show up at the school unannounced. See what's going on, see what they're teaching, and see where your kid is. Show up. Just see what's going on. Why? Who knows. I'm not saying everybody's a criminal. I'm saying you can't trust anyone. That's what I'm saying. Why? Because I don't want to find out too late. I don't want to find out too late. Stories like this about little kids break my heart. I cry when I hear them. It's just, it's like, how do you touch a little kid? How do you do anything to a little kid? It's just, it's unbelievable to me. And then when it comes from the religious world... ... It kills me. But this is a story after story after story, and unfortunately, these stories are something that communities have hidden for years. The Christian community, the Catholic community, the Jewish community, the secular community—everybody hides it. Why? What are we ashamed of? You should be ashamed of yourself for hiding it.

12:47It's time to speak up. We have to do it; the kids are relying on us to protect them. At the very least, we need to do our job.