Brooklyn Daily Eagle
April 13, 2010
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| Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Patricia M. DiMango will sentence Rabbi Lebovits to prison. |
JAY STREET — A Brooklyn Judge will sentence a Brooklyn rabbi to prison Monday — possibly to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
In March, Baruch Lebovits, 59, was convicted of sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy on eight occasions in 2004 and 2005.
He faces four years on each of the eight counts of criminal sex act in the third degree when Kings County Supreme Court Justice Patricia DiMango sentences him Monday.
The victim knew Lebovits as a rabbi and prominent businessman in the Borough Park community, where they both lived. Lebovits’ defense attorney Arthur Aidala claimed the victim, who had a criminal record, was trying to extort Lebvovits.
Lebovits is also charged in two other cases of sexual assaults on minors. Those cases are pending. —Ryan Thompson
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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