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Last update - 00:05 18/11/2007 Israel asks U.S. to clarify call to extradite alleged pedophile By Aviva Lori, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service Tags: Abraham Mondrowitz Israel has requested clarifications of a U.S. request for extradition of an Israeli man wanted in New York for allegedly sodomizing and sexually abusing several boys ages 9 to 15 more than 20 years ago, a spokesman said Saturday. Israel has requested a few corrections in the U.S. extradition request, the state prosecutor's office said in a request to be submitted Sunday for an extension of Mondrowitz's arrest by 12 days. Advertisement Israeli police arrested Abraham Mondrowitz, 60, before dawn Friday at his home in the ultra Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Nahlaot. The suspect's detention came two months after the United States had resubmitted an extradition request first made in 1985, months after Mondrowitz fled his Brooklyn, N.Y. home for Israel in light of police charges against him, Justice Ministry spokesman Moshe Cohen said. Mondrowitz, a Gur Hasid suspected of sexually abusing Haredi children in the United States, was arrested Friday morning pending extradition orders to the U.S. Mondrowitz fled the U.S. over 20 years ago and has been hiding in Israel ever since. The U.S. Justice Department two months ago submitted a request to Israel to extradite the suspect. The spokesman of the Justice Ministry confirmed the arrest. Mondrowitz styles himself a rabbi and a psychologist and was a highly influential figure in the Gur community of Brooklyn in the early 1980s. Police suspect Mondrowitz sexually abused children brought to him as patients, including with acts of sodomy. In many cases, the parents were waiting in the next room for the treatment to end, so they could take the children home. Those are the facts as collected by the Brooklyn police and told by the children. An arrest warrant was issued for Mondrowitz in 1984, but when police arrived at his Brooklyn home to arrest him, they found it empty. An indictment was drawn in 1985, but Mondrowitz was able to evade arrest due to the complications of extradition. For the full feature on Avrohom Mondrowitz, read this weekend's Haaretz's Magazine: In the basement, behind a closed door Bookmark to del.icio.us   All in the family Tel Aviv municipality moves to retain contract with Gaza City as 'twin city.' Pining for a leader A documentary examines Ariel Sharon's motive for the Gaza disengagement.   1.   some corrected facts 13:03  |  a neighbor 18/11/07   2.   proffessor of business at Hebrew U 14:26  |  Leah 18/11/07   3.   #1-Fifthly 02:47  |  noel 20/11/07   4.   #3 who appointed you a judge? 19:15  |  Another Jew 20/11/07   5.   some facts 21:51  |  victim 20/11/07   6.   # 5 Tell the DA immediately no pedophile 19:07  |  Petra 14/01/08   7.   #3 23:20  |  ed 10/02/08   8.   #4 AJ 02:09  |  Space 11/02/08

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