NEW YORK
Albany Times Union
By Robert Gavin
Updated 8:20 am, Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Here is the column Yaakov Weiss does not want you to read.
The 32-year-old suspended Orthodox rabbi from Colonie recently reached a $6,000 settlement with the family of one of the two youths he victimized in 2007 when they were 13.
The settlement resolved a sexual assault and defamation lawsuit against Weiss — who, in January 2010, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child endangerment for what he admitted was “inappropriate physical contact” with the boys on Whitehall Road. The crime took place at a mikveh, a bath used in Judaism for ritual immersion.
Weiss, former director of Chabad of Colonie, received 60 days in jail for his crime in 2010, but he still faced a civil lawsuit filed by the families of both victims.
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