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SALT LAKE CITY Rabbi Avrohom Avremi Zippel thought the worst was behind him. Twenty years after his former nanny first touched him inappropriately, a jury had found her guilty as charged.
But the 28-year-old faith leader wound up in an emergency room three weeks later, believing he d had a heart attack.
The tightening in his chest didn t surprise a doctor who recognized him from news coverage of the case. The diagnosis was a severe panic attack, but the patient disagreed. The case is over, the Orthodox rabbi recalls explaining to his doctor. He said, That that s not how this works. The wounds that are opened during a process like that, they fester and they sit, and they come and claim their dues, even weeks later.
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‘These questions pick at scabs that have been laying there for years,’ faith leader says
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Rabbi Avrohom “Avremi” Zippel walks away from a courtroom in the Matheson Courthouse in Salt Lake City on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, after his former nanny was found guilty on five counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony, and two counts of forcible sex abuse, a second-degree felony. At the rabbi’s urging, a continuing education seminar open to prosecutors, victim advocates and defense lawyers will explore how to do their jobs in a way that avoids causing additional, unnecessary trauma to victims.