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Posted by Heather Doyle (Editor) , October 18, 2013
A rabbi was arrested Thursday after cops say he sexually abused a student, according to Nassau County Police.
Rabbi Gary Lieberman, 56, of Far Rockaway, abused a then 10-year-old boy between Nov. 4, 2009 and May 2010 while he was a teacher at Hebrew Academy of Nassau County in West Hempstead, police said.
Lieberman victimized the boy in a second floor learning center, where the two would be alone, as well as a bathroom in the school, police said. Lieberman allegedly told the victim that if he reported the abuse to anyone, “they would not believe him because he is a Rabbi,” police said.
A Special Victims Squad investigation led to Lieberman’s arrest Thursday after the academy’s chairman of the board of education reported the incident, police said. How the abuse was discovered was not reported.
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