NEW YORK
WPIX
[with video]
Rabbi Nathan David Rabinowich and a criminal defense attorney hurriedly walked out of the Queens County courthouse Thursday. Police say the 59-year-old Brooklyn based rabbi thought he was sending sexually explicit instant messages to a 14-year old girl in December and then again over the last two weeks.
It turns out that girl was really an undercover NYPD vice detective.
Investigators say Rabbi Rabinowich used two AOL screen names…”NYC-NORMAL100″ and “NORMALGENTNYC”.
He was arrested last night when he left his Brooklyn home and showed up in Queens to meet with the would be 14-year old.
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