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.