Israeli Rabbi Detained In Borough Park For Allegedly Lying About Child Rape Bust On Visa Application

The NYPD’s Special Victim’s Squad detained an ultra-Orthodox rabbi in Borough Park on Tuesday, claiming he lied on a U.S. visa application about his conviction for raping and sodomizing a child.

The New York Post reports:

Yakov Yitzchak Roth — a “rebbe” in the Hasidic group Shomrei Emunim — was arrested Tuesday in Borough Park by cops with the NYPD Special Victim’s Squad.

He had flown here from Tel Aviv in late August after swearing in a visa application that he had never been arrested or convicted, according to the federal complaint against him.

In reality, just six months earlier he had finished serving a 16-year sentence on his 1997 conviction in the District Court of Tel Aviv for raping, sodomizing and sexually assaulting a child relative, the complaint said.