Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes says that he has arrested an unprecedented 89 men on child sex-abuse charges in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn over the past couple of years

Sexual abuse survivors and their advocates have long harried Hynes for overlooking molesters in the borough’s tight-knit, ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. They charge that Hynes fears political retaliation from the borough’s powerful rabbinic leaders and their bloc-voting Orthodox Jewish voters. Unfortunately, Hynes has a long history of pandering to ethnic and racial minorities - such as the Jews - so it is unlikely that he will do anything to alienate the powerful rabbis who control much of the Jewish vote in parts of New York City.