Guilty! Stephen Joseph Schacter, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (arrested Dec 2015) [child porn child sex assault]

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    Former teacher faces sex assault charges


    A 55-year-old former teacher and tutor is facing additional charges in a child pornography and sexual assault investigation.
    Toronto police say Stephen Joseph Schacter has been charged with two counts of sexual assault, and one count each of sexual interference, sexual exploitation and gross indecency.


    Police began investigating last November when officers were called to an employment centre after a man was alleged to be viewing child pornography on a public computer. Schacter was charged with possession of child pornography in December after police executed a search warrant in north Toronto. Police say Schacter was an elementary school teacher for the Eitz Chaim schools between 1986 and 2004, worked as the office administrator at the United Synagogue Day School between 2005 and 2009, and as a private tutor from 2009 until 2011. Investigators say the alleged sexual offences date back to March 8, 1982, and ...


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    Former elementary school teacher faces new sex assault charges

    Police are hoping more victims have the courage to come forward after a former elementary school teacher, charged with child pornography offences last year, is facing additional charges. The investigation began on Nov. 6. Police allege a a man was viewing child pornography on a public computer at the Employment and Social Services Centre located at Lawrence Square. Stephen Jospeh Schacter, 55, a former Toronto elementary school teacher and private tutor, was arrested on Dec. 16. He is facing one count of possession of child pornography.



    “Evidence was uncovered by police indicating that there had, in the past, been allegations that Stephen Schacter had been sexually inappropriate with persons under the age of 18 years old, including students,” Det. Const. Joel Manherz with the Toronto police Sex Crimes Unit told the media on Monday.

    Police wouldn’t comment on if Schacter’s alleged victims were male, female or both. But they did say the victims were in the primary grades at the time and are now in their 30s and 40s.


    According to police, Schacter was an elementary school teacher for Eitz Chaim schools between 1986 and 2004. There are three Eitz Chaim schools located in North York. Police said he was also a primary teacher assistant for Grades 1 and 2 at Pleasant Avenue Public school in 2004 before becoming the office administrator at the United Synagogue Day School, located in York, between 2005 and 2009. It is also alleged that he then worked as a private tutor from 2009 to 2011.



    According to Manherz, after Schacter’s image was circulated through the media in December, three victims came forward to police claiming they had been abused in the 1980s and 1990s.

    “It’s alleged that Mr. Schacter had ready access to these children as a result of his teaching positions and his status in the community,” Manherz explained.

    On Wednesday Schacter was arrested for a second time. He was charged with gross indecency, two counts of sexual assault, sexual exploitation and sexual interference.


    “The Toronto Police Service believes that there are more victims. Victims who need to be assured that they are not alone. That we can provide them with the assistance that they need and that their community supports them,” said Manherz. “Some victims may believe that what happened to them will have no impact on the case but that is simply not true. There is power in numbers. Both in corroborating other victims’ allegations and, should we reach that point, in sentencing,” he continued. Schacter said there has been some indications other victims have made reports to the schools but have ...


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    New sex charges for former teacher Stephen Joseph Schacter

    A former teacher already facing charges of possessing child pornography faces five new sex charges, including sexual interference with a minor, sexual exploitation, gross indecency and sexual assault. At a news conference Monday, Det. Const. Joel Manherz of the Sex Crimes Child Exploitation Unit said Stephen Joseph Schacter, 55, allegedly “had ready access to these children as a result of his teaching positions and his status in the community.” Monday’s announcement came two months after Schacter was charged with possession of child pornography. His earlier arrest prompted three people to come forward and allege that Schacter abused them when they ...


    Schacter was a Grade 2 and 3 teacher at the Eitz Chaim group of Jewish day schools in Toronto from 1986 to 2004. He subsequently worked as a primary teaching assistant at Pleasant Avenue Public School in 2004, and as an office administrator, student supervisor and supply teacher for the United Synagogue Day School from 2004 to 2006. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a private tutor.


    When asked for comment, Eitz Chaim executive director Elias Levy said in a written statement that the school would continue to cooperate with the police investigation into Schacter. “The safety and well-being of our students is our top priority,” Levy wrote. “We have a thorough and rigorous screening process in place for hiring staff, which includes a full police check as well as vulnerable sector screening test that is regulated by the police.” Schacter was initially arrested Dec. 16, 2015 and charged with possession of child pornography after police were informed he was allegedly looking at child porn on a ...


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    Former Toronto Day School Teacher Hit With Sex Charges

    A former teacher at two Toronto-area Jewish day schools has been charged with a variety of sex offenses. Stephen Joseph Schacter, 55, was charged in December with one count of possessing child pornography. At the time, police encouraged his former students to come forward. On Feb. 24, police arrested him again and charged him with one count of gross indecency, one count of sexual interference, one count of sexual exploitation and two counts of sexual assault. Police say the charges date to the 1980s and early 1990s. They said three witnesses have come forward to allege they were abused. Schacter ...


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    Former Toronto day school teacher charged with sex offenses

    TORONTO (JTA) — A former teacher at two Toronto-area Jewish day schools has been charged with a variety of sex offenses. Stephen Joseph Schacter, 55, was charged in December with one count of possessing child pornography. At the time, police encouraged ...


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    Ex-teacher at 2 Toronto Jewish day schools charged with sex offenses

    A former teacher at two Toronto-area Jewish day schools has been charged with a variety of sex offenses. Last week, police arrested Stephen Joseph Schacter, 55, and charged him with one count each of gross indecency, sexual interference and sexual exploitation, and two counts of sexual assault. In December, he had been charged with one count of possessing child pornography. At the time, police encouraged his former students to come forward. Police say the latest charges date to the 1980s and early 1990s. They said three witnesses have come forward to allege they were abused. Schacter was a teacher at ...


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    Ex-teacher at 2 Toronto Jewish schools charged with sex crimes

    TORONTO — A former teacher at two Toronto-area Jewish day schools has been charged with a variety of sex offenses. Last week, police arrested Stephen Joseph Schacter, 55, and charged him with one count each of gross indecency, sexual interference and ...


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    Ex-teacher facing several new charges

    A man arrested in December on child porn charges is now facing five sex assault-related charges after three alleged victims have come forward saying they were abused. Stephen Joseph Schacter, 55, was initially arrested late last year, a month after police say he was viewing child pornography on a computer at an employment centre at Lawrence Square near Lawrence Avenue West and Allen Road.



    Det. Const. Joel Manherz, during a police news conference today, said as a result of media coverage of Schacter’s prior arrest, three victims came forward alleging sexual abuse.

    On Feb. 24, Schacter was arrested again, and is now facing two counts of sexual assault, and one each of sexual interference, sexual exploitation, and gross indecency.

    During the announcement of the recent arrest, Manherz said the three victims were primary-school age at the time of the alleged offences and are now in their 30s and 40s. He said the incidents took place in the 1980s and 1990s, when Schacter was working as a teacher at Eitz Chaim school in North York. Manherz would not comment on the gender of the victims.

    Schacter was employed at Eitz Chaim from 1986 to 2004, at which time Manherz alleged Schacter was asked to leave following an allegation of inappropriate conduct. The allegation, he said, was not reported to police. Schacter then worked at the Eglinton-Bathurst area United Synagogue Day School from 2005 to 2009 in several capacities, and finally as a private tutor from 2009 to 2011.


    Manherz added that while legislation exists now to force schools to report such allegations, the legislation did not exist at the time of the unreported allegation. He also said police are aware of allegations reported to the school but not reported to police, and that those allegations are not from the same victims who have come forward to police now. As a result, Manherz said police believe there are more victims. Police also said the current allegations go back to March of 1982.


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    More charges laid on Schacter

    Stephen Joseph Schacter, a former teacher at two Toronto-area Jewish day schools, has been charged with more sexual offences. Schacter, 55, was charged recently with one count each of sexual assault, sexual interference and sexual exploitation. The charges ...


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    Former teacher pleads not guilty to child porn charges

    Stephen Joseph Schacter, a former teacher at two Toronto-area Jewish day schools, has been charged with more sexual offences. Schacter, 55, was charged recently with one count each of sexual assault, sexual interference and sexual exploitation. The charges result from a new complainant coming forward, said Det.-Cons. Joel Manherz of the Toronto police Sex Crimes Unit’s Child Exploitation Section. The latest charges date to the early 2000s, Manherz told The CJN. In February, Schacter was charged with one count each of gross indecency, sexual interference, and sexual exploitation, and two counts of sexual assault. Police said those charges date to ...


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    Stephen Schacter child pornography trial begins

    Stephen Schacter, a former teacher at two Toronto-area Jewish day schools, was seen viewing “inappropriate” images on a computer, causing some witnesses to be “visibly upset,” a court has heard. Schacter, 56, has pleaded not guilty to one count of possessing child pornography. He was arrested in December 2015 after he viewed images on a computer at the Lawrence Square employment and social services centre on Nov. 6, 2015. A publication ban prevents the identification of witnesses at his trial.



    Court heard on Feb. 1 and 2 from several witnesses that Schacter was seen viewing “inappropriate” images at the centre. Some witnesses said they heard about the images from others at the centre that day.

    His lawyer, Joseph Kappy, challenged the witnesses on whether the images were sexual in nature and whether they had actually seen them.

    Court heard that Schacter was warned that the facility’s computers are for official use only.

    The images “had to be” on an external storage device Schacter had brought with him because the centre’s computers have strong filters that “block a lot of” information, said one witness.

    When confronted, Schacter said the photographs were of a friend’s child, “and I’m deleting them,” according to a witness, who said the images were on a thumb drive.

    Schacter “appeared nervous” and others at the centre were “visibly upset,” according to testimony.

    Police were called and later executed a search warrant at Schacter’s residence. Court heard that several computers, cell phones and data storage devices were seized.

    Police believe that dozens of images found on the storage devices satisfy the Criminal Code’s definition of child pornography, his trial heard.


    Schacter showed no emotion as some of the photographs were shown in court. Schacter was a teacher at Eitz Chaim Schools between 1986 and 2004. He also worked with students in the school’s library. He was an office administrator, student supervisor, and supply teacher at United Synagogue Day School (now Robbins Hebrew Academy) from 2004 to 2006. He was a primary teacher’s assistant in grades one and two at Pleasant Avenue Public School in 2004, and was a private tutor from 2009 until 2011. Separately, Schacter faces charges of sexual assault, sexual interference, sexual exploitation and gross indecency. Some of ...


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    Toronto day school teacher found guilty on child porn charges

    Stephen Schacter, a former teacher at two Toronto-area Jewish day schools, has been found guilty of possessing child pornography. Schacter, 56, was found guilty on May 31 of one count of possessing child pornography, following a trial earlier this year, at which he had pleaded not guilty to the charge. He showed no reaction to the judgment. The images Schachter had in his possession served “one purpose: to normalize and utilize the objectification of children as sexual objects for the purpose of sexual gratification,” said Justice Susan Chapman of the Ontario court of justice, in her ruling. They were “not ...


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    Ex-teacher at 2 Toronto Jewish day schools convicted of sex offenses


    A former teacher at two Toronto-area Jewish day schools was found guilty of several sexual offenses.

    Stephen Joseph Schacter was found guilty last week by a Superior Court of Justice judge of three counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual interference and one count of gross indecency, the Canadian Jewish News reported last week.

    Sentencing hearings on the child pornography charge and the sexual offenses are scheduled for early 2019.

    The offenses occurred between 1982 and 2002. The case featured four complaints.


    Schacter was a teacher at Eitz Chaim schools between 1986 and 2004. At a news conference Monday, police said Schacter taught second and third grades at the Orthodox Jewish school, which runs three campuses in the Toronto area.



    In May, Schacter was found guilty of one count of possessing child pornography. Aspects of that case were introduced as evidence in the trial over the sexual offenses.

    Police arrested Schacter in 2016. In 2015, he had been charged with one count of possessing child pornography. At the time, police encouraged his former students to come forward.



    At his trial in June, the court heard from a male witness, now 47, who testified that he was sexually exploited by Schacter 30 or 40 times between the ages of 11 and 13, from approximately 1982 to 1985.

    At the time, Schacter was a supply teacher at Yeshiva Yesodei HaTorah, an all-boys Orthodox Jewish school that the witness attended. Schacter was a substitute teacher for afternoon secular studies classes.


    Police also said Schacter was an office administrator, student supervisor and supply teacher at United Synagogue Day School, now Robbins Hebrew Academy, in 2004 and 2006. He worked as a private tutor from 2009 until 2011.


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    Ex-teacher at 2 Toronto Jewish day schools convicted of sex offenses

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    Schacter sentenced to six months for child porn

    Steven Schacter, a former teacher at several Toronto-area Jewish day schools, has been sentenced to six months in prison for possessing child pornography. He was also sentenced to three years’ probation, which will include a long list of restrictions on Internet use, possession of electronic storage devices and contact with minors. Schacter was found guilty last May of one count of possessing child pornography. He had pleaded not guilty to the charge. The kippah-clad Schacter, 58, showed no emotion when the sentenced was imposed on March 25, or any when he was led away from court with his hands cuffed ...


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