A counselor at a Jewish day camp has been charged with the sexual abuse of children

Joseph Passof, a retired New York City schoolteacher known by the nickname "Uncle Joe," is accused of molesting a 5-year-old boy in a bathroom in the summer of 2010. The counselor was slapped with a slew of sex-abuse charges for the heinous July 2010 assault, in which he sneaked up behind his young victim and attacked him in front of a 4-year-old camper. The 65-year-old, who spent 36 years on staff at the Flatbush Park Jewish Center Day Camp, was arrested. He was ordered held on $50,000 bail or bond. Passof taught at New York City schools, including PS 99 Isaac Asimov School for Science and Literature in Midwood, Brooklyn, from 1984 until his retirement in 2003.