Broadside: Rabbi Sentencing Controversy

NECN
August 10, 2012

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Last week, a Massachusetts rabbi, who served as an instructor at a school years ago in Brookline, plead guilty to four counts of child sex abuse.

Stanley Levitt could have gotten 40 years in prison. Instead, he was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Levitt's victims were in court - and were outraged.

Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney specializing in sex abuse cases, is the advocate for one of the victims.

"The judge's explanation was, was that there was an agreement between the prosecution and the defense months earlier - which the defense rejected - saying we're goin to agree to probation," said Garabedian. "Now, the defense rejected that, saying 'We want to go to trial.' So when the trial date came, the rabbi - the pedophile - said, 'Well, I'll accept a plea.'"

Watch the attached video for the full interview.