NEW YORK
The New York Times
By SHARON OTTERMAN
Published: December 3, 2012
The former principal of a private school in Brooklyn was found guilty in State Supreme Court on Monday of sexually abusing three boys over the course of a decade, including one boy who was 7 years old when the abuse started.
After three days of deliberation, a jury in Brooklyn found the man, Emanuel Yegutkin, 33, guilty of 75 counts of sexual abuse, including the top charge, sexual conduct against a child in the first degree, which carries a maximum 25-year prison sentence. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
Mr. Yegutkin’s lawyer, Jeffrey Schwartz, could not be reached for comment Monday evening.
The case is among a wave of sexual abuse cases involving Orthodox Jews that the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, is prosecuting after decades in which such prosecutions were rare. Another trial, involving Nechemya Weberman, an unlicensed religious counselor accused of molesting a girl he was treating, continues Tuesday in the same courthouse with testimony from the girl’s mother.
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