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Rabbi Baruch Leibovits Sentenced To Two Years For Felony Child Sex Abuse, Could Be Free In Only Weeks
Rabbi Baruch Lebovits was sentenced this morning to to two years for felony child sex abuse in a sweetheart plea deal. Because Leibovits already served time in prison for this and other counts but was freed after an error by the prosecution came to light, Leibovits could walk free in a matter of weeks when time served is counted.
It’s another travesty of justice in Brooklyn.
Rabbi Baruch Lebovits was sentenced this morning to to two years for felony child sex abuse in a sweetheart plea deal. Because Leibovits already served time in prison for this and other counts but was freed and slated for retrial after an error by the prosecution (which actually favored Leibovits) came to light, Leibovits could walk free in a matter of weeks when time served is counted.
His original sentence could have seen him serve more than 30 years in prison.
But witnesses were clearly tampered with and bribed, and two DAs did nothing about it – even after the newest DA, Ken Thompson, admitted to the court that it happened. And now another haredi child sex abuser will walk.
Bizzarely, one of Lebovits’ haredi victims – who was allegedly paid off by Leibovits’ family, a fact the DA knows – spoke today in court in support of the sweetheart plea deal as did this victim’s father, who used the opportunity to publicly thank the attorney who arranged that payoff from Lebovits’ family to his family.
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