Victim savors conviction of pedophile rabbi

BOSTON (MA)
Boston Herald

By Matt Stout
Thursday, August 2, 2012

A man once targeted by the pedophile rabbi who pleaded guilty yesterday to preying on boys in the 1970s said he’s relishing the chance to face the “sick man” who used his power as a Brookline religion teacher.

“I don’t have any hope of retribution, I don’t want any revenge … but I have no problem facing him whatsoever,” Michael Brecher, now 48, told the Herald, saying he will address the court when Rabbi Stanley Levitt, 66, is sentenced today in Suffolk Superior court on four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child.

Levitt’s guilty plea comes roughly eight months after he initially was expected to admit to the decades-old abuse, but balked at the last minute.

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