Child sexual abuse in New York City religious institutions has presaged or echoed that which has occurred and emerged elsewhere in the United States and Europe.
In early 2011, long-time basketball coach at Christ the King Regional High School Bob Oliva was accused of two cases of child sexual abuse.
Under the conditions of Oliva's plea bargain, he was permanently banned from coaching, and sentenced to five years' probation, during which he was mandated to wear a monitoring device to track his movements.
A news report a year after the conviction said that the victim in the case had been "deeply moved by the number of people who offered him support when Oliva and Christ the King officials were dismissing him as a shakedown artist.
Lorch was "accused of sexually abusing the then-17-year-old victim when his Riverside Hawks team traveled from Manhattan to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst for a tournament between March 1977 and April 1978.
"[7] As of March, 2011 Lorch's attorney was asserting his client suffered from dementia and diabetes and required a wheelchair; and the lawyer was effecting other efforts to prevent extradition, including habeas corpus and a challenge to the "frozen statute of limitations" provision.
[13] Agudath Israel of America, an ultra-Orthodox organization, has stated that observant Jews should not report allegations to law enforcement without first consulting with a rabbi.
[11][12] However, other rabbis, including a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinic court in Crown Heights and Yosef Blau, disagree and encourage reporting abusers to police, stating that the ban on mesirah does not apply.
[15] In December 2012, the President of the Orthodox Jewish Yeshiva University apologized over allegations that two rabbis at the college's high school campus abused boys there in the late 1970s and early ’80s.