Rabbi charged with assaulting underage female relatives
From brooklyneagle.com
A Brooklyn man who fled to Israel in 2010 to escape charges that he repeatedly sexually assaulted two young relatives has been extradited to Brooklyn.
Gershon Kranczer, 65, a rabbi who was formerly the head of a Brooklyn yeshiva, was arraigned Friday on an indictment in which he is charged with course of sexual conduct against a child, criminal sexual act and sexual abuse.