NEW YORK
New York Post
By JOSE MARTINEZ
Last Updated: 1:59 AM, May 22, 2012
A deviant dad could be caged for the rest of his life for preying on kids in his Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn.
Michael Sabo was smacked with a 20-years-to-life prison sentence yesterday after relatives of his two young victims trashed him as a “monster” who should never walk free again — and as District Attorney Charles Hynes continued taking heat for shielding the names of accused sexual attackers in religious Jewish communities.
“I feel like breaking your bones and I hope you rot in prison,” one of Sabo’s victims, now 16, wrote in a letter read aloud in court by his dad. “I want to kill you over and over again.”
Sabo pleaded guilty this month to molesting a boy and a girl over several years, even as prosecutors said the girl’s relatives were pressured in a synagogue by Sabo supporters who vowed to pack the courtroom if she dared to testify against him.
“Despite this shameful act, these children and their parents still had the courage to come to court,” prosecutor Kevin O’Donnell said.
The family of another of Sabo’s accusers didn’t cooperate because of fear of reprisals from within the Orthodox community, prosecutors said.
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