Yeshiva Teacher Seeks to Pull Sex Abuse Plea

New Jersey 101.5
September 7, 2013

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Yeshiva Bais Hatorah School

An attorney for a former New Jersey yeshiva camp counselor says his client will seek to withdraw his guilty plea to child sexual assault charges.

Yosef Kolko pleaded guilty in May to abusing the then-11-year-old boy in 2008 and 2009. He had been scheduled to be sentenced last week and faced up to 40 years in prison.

Attorney Alan Zegas  has filed a motion to withdraw the guilty plea. Zegas tells The Asbury Park Press that Kolko was under pressure from his community at the time he pleaded guilty.

A judge gave Zegas until the end of the month to file a brief in support of his motion to withdraw the plea. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for October 17.