Rabbi busted after setting up Queens date for sex with a ’14-year-old girl’ online

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New York Daily News

By Kerry Burke , Joe Stepansky AND Daniel Beekman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Published: Friday, February 15, 2013

A Brooklyn rabbi and travel guide exchanged sexually explicit online messages with an undercover cop he thought was a 14-year-old girl, then set up a date with her in Queens, prosecutors charged Thursday.

Nathan David Rabinowich, 59, was arrested Wednesday night when he showed up for the pervy rendezvous, police said. He faces up to four years in prison if convicted of attempted rape and other counts.

“It is disturbing that a man who is supposed to be held in high esteem by the community in which he lives would allegedly try to lure a child to meet him for sex,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

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