Rabbi given probation, not jail in sex assault case

BOSTON (MA)
Boston Herald

By Matt Stout
Thursday, August 2, 2012

The pedophile rabbi who admitted to molesting three young boys in the 1970s was sentenced to 10 years probation today in Suffolk Superior Court, a possibility one of his victims said he was told to expect.

Prosecutors say they asked that Stanley Levitt, 66, be sentenced to 2 ½ years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child.

The rabbi, who lives in Philadelphia, yesterday admitted to sexually assaulting three sixth-grade boys while he working as a Brookline religious teacher more than three decades ago.

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