NEW YORK
Long Island Press
By Rashed Mian on October 18, 2013
A 56-year-old rabbi has been accused of sexually abusing a student at a Hebrew Academy of Nassau County school where he was a religious teacher before his termination three years ago, Nassau County police said.
Gary Lieberman of Far Rockaway will be arraigned Friday at First District Court in Hempstead on two counts of first-degree sexual abuse from incidents stemming from Nov. 4, 2009 through May 2010, police said.
Detectives said Lieberman allegedly sexually abused a 10-year-old student student twice at the Hempstead Avenue school, first in a learning resource room on the second floor of the building and a second time inside a school restroom. A police spokesman said the department was not identifying the school by name to protect the victim.
“Lieberman told the victim that if he tells anyone about this they would not believe him because he is a rabbi,” police said in a news release.
The chairman of the Board of the Education of the Hebrew Academy notified police about the alleged sexual abuse, police said.
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