BIG BROTHER VOLUNTEER CHARGED WITH RAPE, SEXUALLY ASSAULTING CHILDREN

Eric Hindin, a 37 year old Jewish Big Brothers volunteer, is being held without bail in a Cambridge jail, charged with rape and indecent assault against children in Newton and Brookline.  He pleaded innocent Wednesday to two charges of indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of 14.  He was ordered held without bail, pending a hearing scheduled for April 17.  Hindin was found sleeping in his car in a hotel parking lot.  In his possession was a not to his parents admitting his pedophilia...and strong attraction to young boys.  In the note he said, By the time you read this, I will be a fugitive or will have committed suicide.  He faces two charges of rape of a child, two charges of indecent assault and battery and two charges of statutory rape.  The organization makes extensive background checks of potential volunteers, and did so with Hindin, but came across nothing that would bar him from volunteering.  He had been a volunteer since 1987.  Officials in both counties were still investigating.

(Newton, Massachusetts)