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Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
What happened with the sweetheart plea deal given to Rabbi Baruch Lebovits today in a Brooklyn court?
In part the deal was given because of another sweetheart plea deal handed out earlier this week by a new Brooklyn DA many anti-abuse activists now consider to be corrupt.
In court today, Lebovits admitted to having oral sex with a teenage boy on eight different occasions from 2004 and 2005.
In 2010 Lebovits was convicted of the same charges and sentenced to 10 2/3 to 32 years in prison. But that conviction was overturned in 2012 on a technicality that did not impact the evidence against Lebovits. (The appellate court noted the evidence against Lebovits remained strong.)
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