Brooklyn DA Gives Hasid Who Had Sex With A 13-Year-Old Boy A 60 Day Jail Sentence

What happened with the sweetheart plea deal given to Rabbi Baruch Lebovits today? In part the deal was given because of another sweetheart plea deal handed out earlier this week by a new Brooklyn DA many anti-abuse activists now consider to be corrupt.

Above: hasidic pedophile Rabbi Baruch Lebovits

Brooklyn DA Gives Hasid Who Had Sex With A 13-Year-Old Boy A 60 Day Jail Sentence
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

What happened with the sweetheart plea deal given to Rabbi Baruch Lebovits today in a Brooklyn court?

In part the deal was given because of another sweetheart plea deal handed out earlier this week by a new Brooklyn DA many anti-abuse activists now consider to be corrupt.

In court today, Lebovits admitted to having oral sex with a teenage boy on eight different occasions from 2004 and 2005.

In 2010 Lebovits was convicted of the same charges and sentenced to 10 2/3 to 32 years in prison. But that conviction was overturned in 2012 on a technicality that did not impact the evidence against Lebovits. (The appellate court noted the evidence against Lebovits remained strong.)

Today, prosecutors offered Lebovits a deal with a sentence of two to six years in prison.

Lebovits refused it.

Lebovits' attorneys pointed out that earlier this week, Thompson gave hasid Yoel Malik a plea deal that will see him serve at most 60 days in city jail for having sex with a 13-year-old boy in a hotel room.

The judge, Mark Dwyer, then told the attorneys that he would only give Lebovits a two-year prison sentence because that was the average sentence, he claimed, for offenders who admitted to the same crime.

Lebovits immediately pleaded guilty.

With credit for 13 months previously served and time off for good behavior, Lebovits will only serve about three months in a city jail.

“The DA has been ready and willing to proceed to trial, but he understands he has to balance the needs of justice with what would be best for the complainant,” the lead prosecutor on the case, Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi said in court.

Lebovits’ victim was allegedly promised close to $1 million dollars not to testify against Lebovits in the new trial.

Despite that and other clear evidence of witness tampering by supporters of Lebovits in this case and in the related case of Sam Kellner – who was charged with extorting the Lebovits family based on evidence that turned out to be tainted, perjured and simply false, and which came from the Lebovits family itself – Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson has not attempted to prosecute the individuals who did that alleged tampering (although he did drop the charges against Kellner).

Thompson recently gave the Satmar hasid who threw bleach in face and eye of Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg a no-prison plea deal.

That, the deal Thompson gave Malik earlier this week, and what many consider to be his office's deplorable conduct in the Lebovits case has enraged many victims’ advocates who now view Thompson as corrupt – in their minds, as corrupt as his predecessor Charles J. Hynes.

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Comments

[yehuda fulda]

nambla should convert to the satmer cult they will be in heaven and will get to molest every kid inthe mikva

[this is a name]

To play devil's advocate here....

If you are a faggot, and you are a religious jew, then adulthood is reached at 13. Where is the crime here?

(OFC there is a crime here I'm just playin devil's advocate)

[Shmarya]

No, you're just being an asshole.

[this is a name]

When did religious jews start believing in statutory laws that contradict the torah??

[this is a name]

so if you have a fag religious jew, then adulthood starts at THIRTEEN.

[Shmarya]

Idiot.

The halakha is that as long as the secular laws do not force a Jew to do something that is against the Torah (eat pork, for example), those secular laws have to be followed.

You are a shining example of haredi illiteracy (or, in your specific case, Chabad illiteracy).

[this is a name]

I think we need to separate the need to follow vs actually believing in. A secular law may not par with the Torah's view on things and it must be followed since it does not disobey the torah; does it mean that the secular law is actually believed in even though the need to follow it is granted?

[m]

shame on the D.A. of brooklyn . he is worse than hynes .

if this case took place in nassau county and sentenced in nassau county ,
lebovits would have had at least 20 years and would have died in jail .

this kind of sentence will encourage more sexual predators and pedophiles
to commit crimes . they are plenty of pedophiles in the hassidic communities ,
and the religious set up ( the mikveh , men with men only make it happen every day ) . the brooklyn D.A. does not care bc it did not happen to his children , to ppl he knows or just to non jewish children . therefore , they let it go.

it is time to write in the toyreh not to have sex with underaged children or men with men . and to add it is a very serious crime punishable by death .

[Dave]

It's starting to look pretty good for the Shomrim guys

[Andrew]

"Forget it Jake, it's Borough Park"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSz0mEtEsQ

[seth]

Re: the new DA. Be careful what you wish for, you might get it. Where is lesser of two evils when both strive to displace the other. O Tempora! O Mores! - Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Moses kestenbaum ODA]

Shame on Thompson, Lebovits dont you ever come close to me or i will shave your beard you shaigaits chazir mamzir

[Jin xing]

Chi cho fuo yong