NEW YORK
Jewish Journal

by Jared Sichel

Nearly two years after his arrest in Beverly Hills on sexual abuse charges, Mendel Tevel was sentenced on June 8 in a Brooklyn court to one year in prison, a spokesperson with the Brooklyn district attorney’s office confirmed with the Jewish Journal.

On Apr. 24, Tevel pleaded guilty to two counts of a “criminal sexual act in the third degree,” which, as described by the New York penal code, constitutes anal or oral sex with someone who a minor or is otherwise incapable of providing legal consent. Upon his arraignment in late 2013, he pleaded not guilty to 37 counts of sexual abuse—most either first-degree or third-degree—and was released on $100,000 bail.

Tevel, who is now 31 or 32, was arrested in October 2013 in Beverly Hills and then extradited to New York and charged for sexually abusing a minor there in…