A News in Brief in Wednesday’s Law Journal begins: “An Orthodox Jewish man from Brooklyn has pleaded guilty to eight felony counts of sexual abuse, capping a high-profile case.”
I am offended by this unnecessary mention of the defendant’s religion and ethnicity. Would you have printed something like “A Roman Catholic Irish man from Brooklyn has pleaded guilty to eight felony counts of sexual abuse, capping a high-profile case” if the perpetrator had been an Irish American of the Roman Catholic faith? I think not. Indeed, I know not. Would you have reported that an “African American Baptist man” pleaded guilty to such crimes. Again, no.
