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POPS'Silence must be broken in SEXUAL ABUSE of Children' "We must call on the rabbis to tell their population to be more open about what is going on. It is not lashon hora ," added Kadman. "People who keep quiet are partners in the abuse." Asked whether the case in Beit Shemesh and the one two weeks ago of a US immigrant family accused of severely abusing their six children indicated a rise in abuse within the haredi community, both Slutzky and Kadman concurred that it was more a case of increased awareness and reporting. Kadman noted that child abuse cases have gone up in recent years, but that this was the case in all of society, not particularly in the Haredi community. ...JPost