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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: 'I don’t know if justice will ever be served for him': Survivor speaks out against 79-year-old rabbi accused of sex crimes
Description: Rabbi Shlomo Leib Mund, formerly of Montreal, was arrested on April 13 at Toronto's Pearson airport while flying in from Israel to visit family for Passover. He was promptly charged with sexual assault, sexual interference with a victim under 16 years of age, and incest.
The reason behind the arrest was a warrant issued by Montreal's police force. The accusations against Mund, now 79, date back 25 years, to when he was a well-known rabbi and teacher in Montreal's ultra-Orthodox community. In the early 2000s, after Montreal's rabbinical court investigated him for a sex crime complaint—not the same one that wo...