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	Breaking! Torah Temimah Rabbi Arrested on 5 Federal Counts of Child Sexual Abuse – Worked with Kolko, Faces Life in Prision Failed Messiah October 6, 2008 http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/10/breaking-torah.html And he's a Satmar hasid, too. These are federal charges that include transporting a minor for the purpose… of having sexual relations: PKC:AG:RJN F.#2007R01082 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - X UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - against - Cr. No. 08-571(JG) ISRAEL WEINGARTEN, Defendant. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - X MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT’S MOTION FOR A PERMANENT ORDER OF DETENTION (Excerpts) ... The government hereby moves for a permanent order of detention pursuant to the Bail Reform Act with respect to the defendant ISRAEL WEINGARTEN. The defendant was indicted on August 18, 2008, in a five-count indictment. He is charged with two counts of knowingly and intentionally transporting a minor in foreign commerce with the intent to engage in a sexual activity for which he could be charged with a criminal offense, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a), and three counts of knowingly and intentionally traveling in foreign commerce for the purpose of engaging in a sexual act with a minor, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 2423(b). The defendant faces up to ten years in prison on each count. If convicted at trial, based on a conservative estimate of the advisory Sentencing Guidelines, he faces a range of imprisonment of 168-210 months. ... Finally, the defendant poses a danger to other children in the Sat Mar community as well because he has a history of working in yeshivas for young children. In Belgium, he ran his own Sat Mar school, and in the United States in 2002 he was employed by the Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Temimah, an elementary and secondary school in Brooklyn. Unless he is detained, it will be difficult to prevent him from seeking such employment because the Sat Mar schools do not operate under governmental control....
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