He is a fugitive from justice for allegations of additional abuse crimes.
update: Friday Jan 16
A convicted sex offender flees to Israel after alleged assault in Brooklyn synagogue
EXCLUSIVE: Police are prepared to arrest Yona Weinberg, 36, on a misdemeanor assault charge, records show. But since he's only facing a misdemeanor, authorities won’t be able to extradite him from Israel.
A convicted sex offender stood to be arrested after he allegedly assaulted an 11-year-old boy in a Brooklyn synagogue last summer.
But when police went to Yona Weinberg’s Flatbush home, they found he had fled to Israel.
Now, child advocates in the Jewish community are throwing up their hands, frustrated that the former bar mitzvah tutor and social worker was allowed to skip the country because prosecutors in the office of District Attorney Ken Thompson appeared to be slow to react.
“He’s making all of us who really campaigned hard for him look like fools,” activist Chaim Levin said of Thompson. “He seems to be playing politics. The outcome of this case is disgusting.”
Weinberg, 36, allegedly slammed the 11-year-old boy against a shelf of prayer books in the synagogue on Aug. 15, witnesses told police.
Police are prepared to arrest Weinberg on a misdemeanor assault charge, records show> [...]</ But since Weinberg is only facing a misdemeanor, authorities won’t be able to extradite him from Israel. “In the event that he returns to New York, he will be charged,” said Lupe Todd, Thompson’s spokeswoman. The synagogue scuffle occurred two months after the boy told cops he was “forced” to touch Weinberg’s shirt and pants, ostensibly to measure their size, a law enforcement source told the Daily News.[...]
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update: The Israeli police have been notified but they said unless there is an Interpol warrant or he commits a crime here there is nothing that they can do. Israel does not have a sex offenders list - once a person has served his sentence he is ignored - unless he commits another crime in Israel.
I am trying to get a copy of the arrest warrant in the latest case.
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He is now living in Har Nof Jerusalem 4 Agassi apartment 5 with his wife and 4 children a 9 year old daughter and triplets (2 girls and a boy age 7). His children are attending schools in Har Nof.
Please take the necessary steps to protect your children from this man - who is also alleged to be violent
update: his social worker license was revoked because of his conviction
New York State Sex Registry entry for Yona Weinberg
Offender I.D. # 32336
November 19, 2013
update: his social worker license was revoked because of his conviction
His Social Work License hearing (full document can be downloaded here: http://goo.gl/nXVguQ ) link here: http://www.op.nysed.gov/opd/feb11.htm :
Profession: Licensed Master Social Worker; Lic. No. 074545; Cal. No. 25259Regents Action Date: February 8, 2011Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct; Penalty: Revocation.Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having been convicted of Sexual Abuse in the 2nd Degree and Endangering the Welfare of a Child, both class A misdemeanors based on his sexual abuse of two adolescents.
New York State Sex Registry entry for Yona Weinberg
Offender I.D. # 32336
November 19, 2013
2009 - sentenced to 13 months in jail for molesting 2 boys he tutored for bar mitzva
In August 2009, the rows in a courtroom at State Supreme Court in Brooklyn were packed with rabbis, religious school principals and community leaders. Almost all were there in solidarity with Yona Weinberg, a bar mitzvah tutor and licensed social worker from Flatbush who had been convicted of molesting two boys under age 14.
Justice Guston L. Reichbach looked out with disapproval. He recalled testimony about how the boys had been kicked out of their schools or summer camps after bringing their cases, suggesting a “communal attitude that seeks to blame, indeed punish, victims.” And he noted that, of the 90 letters he had received praising Mr. Weinberg, not one displayed “any concern or any sympathy or even any acknowledgment for these young victims, which, frankly, I find shameful.”
“While the crimes the defendant stands convicted of are bad enough,” the judge said before sentencing Mr. Weinberg to 13 months in prison, “what is even more troubling to the court is a communal attitude that seems to impose greater opprobrium on the victims than the perpetrator.”
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