A leading American Orthodox rabbi, Shmuel Kamenetsky, said that child abuse should be reported to rabbis, not police

Kamenetsky, the vice president of Agudath Israel of America's Supreme Council of Rabbinic Sages, said in a speech in Brooklyn that the sexual abuse of a child should be reported to a rabbi, who would then determine if the police should be called. He made the speech as a search was being conducted for an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy, Leiby Kletzky, whose dismembered body was found the following day in a dumpster and in the apartment of Levi Aron. Aron has been indicted in the boy's murder. Kamenetsky was repeating Agudath Israel of America's official policy banning Jews from reporting child sexual abuse to police. A representative of the Shomrim, a volunteer civilian patrol in New York, said that his organization keeps a list of child molesters whom they have not reported to the police. It is possible that Aron may have been known to some in the haredi Orthodox community, but that they did not report him to the police.