A non-Jewish girl, who received text messages urging pressure on witnesses not to testify, was told: “Forget you ever received this.”

IN A TIGHT-KNIT, some say insular, community, social pressure can go a long way. Many cases of suspected child abuse in the Orthodox [Jewish] world have been tainted by suspicions of witness tampering. Now, in a landmark New Jersey case, a Lakewood man is accused of trying to pressure the father of a young victim to not testify in his son’s case. Shaul Luban, 31, could face five years behind bars.

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