The Jewish Telegraphic Agency's report, published 28 June 2002, on a Monmouth County Superior Court jury's conviction of Rabbi Baruch Lanner, a regional director of the Orthodox Union's NCSY youth movement and former principal of Hillel Yeshiva High School in Ocean Township, New Jersey, on 27 June 2002. The jury convicted him of endangering the welfare of two teenage girls, ages 14 and 15, who had been his students between 1992 and 1996, and of aggravated criminal sexual contact and criminal sexual contact against one of them, while acquitting him of the parallel sexual contact counts against the second girl. He faced up to 20 years and 300,000 dollars in fines at sentencing; the article reports he denied the allegations at trial and his lawyers questioned the accusers' credibility.
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Reliability Tier1
Tier 1: the newswire of record for Jewish institutional affairs, read directly on 14 August 2026, contemporaneous with the verdict and naming the court, the judge and the specific counts. NotesRead directly, 14 August 2026. Carries Lanner's own denial and his counsel's challenge to the accusers' credibility, made through the ordinary channel of a criminal defence at trial. Neither victim is named.
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PublisherJewish Telegraphic Agency
Publication Year2002
URLhttps://www.jta.org/2002/06/28/ny/lanner-convicted-on-abuse-charges
Source Typenews
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This source names New Jersey directly: "Yeshiva High School in Ocean Township, New Jersey, on 27 June 2002."
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This source backs 27 claims across the atlas. As facts: 21 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds, 1 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies, 12 claims: 10 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Organizations, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Articles, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds.
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21Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
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3Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
General References
2Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
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