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  Brooklyn Rabbi Convicted of Sexual Molestation

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
March 8, 2010

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=4&id=33980

Jay Street — Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes announced Monday the conviction of Baruch Lebovits, for sexually abusing a 16 -year-old boy on eight occasions in 2004 and 2005.

Lebovits was convicted on eight counts of Criminal Sexual Act in the Third Degree. When he is sentenced on March 29, he will face up to four years in prison on each count.

The victim knew Lebovits as a rabbi and prominent businessman in the Borough Park community, where they both lived.

Lebovits is also charged in two other cases of sexual assaults on minors. Those cases are pending. The case was prosecuted by Miss Gregory, First Deputy Bureau Chief in the Sex Crimes Bureau. Rhonnie Jaus is Chief of the Sex Crimes Bureau.

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