In 2006 - Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg reported an eyewitness account of child molestation in gay bathhouses in Jewish occupied Jerusalem. Filled with horror and grief at the sight - he reported this to the religious authorities in Jerusalem – but they refused to act, saying the bathhouse pedophiles give them money to subsidize mikvahs! This report was circulated on several popular Jewish blogs:
http://chaptzem.blogspot.com/2005/08/mikva...erg-blasts.html
In the 1980s, Orthodox Rabbi Ephraim Byrks was accused of sexually molesting women, boys, and girls in Canada. He was sheltered and defended by his Orthodox community in Winnipeg, and in 1990 he accepted a position as principal of a Jewish day school in Montreal and from there went to New York and started another Torah school. In 2001, the New York Post published an article by Douglas Montero exposing Byrks as a child molester (“Queens Yeshiva Boss is a Molester: Boy’s Mom,” March 31, 2001). Yet “Once again,” says the Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault (JCASA), “there wasn’t a tremendous reaction within the Rabbinical or Jewish community.”
Some Jewish scholars like Byrks believe that Babylonian Talmud sanction sex with boys under the age of 9 or girls a day older than 3.