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  Religious Tutor Charged with Abusing Four Boys

Empire State News
May 20, 2008

http://www.empirestatenews.net/News/20080520-8.html

BROOKLYN The Kings County District Attorney's office announced the indictment of Yona Weinberg, 29, a Flatbush Bar Mitzvah tutor and licensed social worker charged with sexual abusing four male students, one of which was a client.

The indictment charges Weinberg with Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in the Second Degree, nine counts of Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree, Attempted Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree, and six counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child. If convicted, he faces up to seven years in prison.

The victims range in age from 12 to 14 and some were Weinberg's students, from the Khal Beth Abraham synagogue, where Weinberg gave Bar Mitzvah lessons. Other victims include clients from Weinberg's work as a licensed social worker for the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services.

Initially only two victims reported abuse, but the investigation revealed two additional victims.

 
 

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