Rabbi gets 3 years of sex offender probation

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NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) — A suburban New York rabbi convicted of endangering a child has been sentenced to three years of probation with sex offender conditions.

The Journal News reports (http://lohud.us/1QbcsHW ) Rabbi Gabriel Bodenheimer of Monsey was sentenced Monday and banned from schools with children under 18.

A Rockland grand jury indicted Bodenheimer in 2014 of abusing a boy at the rabbi’s school office between 2009 and 2010. The 72-year-old had faced multiple sexual abuse counts involving the 7-year-old boy, but refused to plead guilty and denied touching the boy.

He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge.

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