Newsday [India]
May 23, 2007
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--india-americanarr
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Chennai, India -- An American rabbi convicted of sexually abusing children has been arrested in southern India after an 11-month manhunt across Asia, police said Wednesday.
Rabbi Alan Jay Horowitz was arrested at a seaside resort in Mahabalipuram, a town in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, by police acting on a tip from Interpol, said a senior police official, D. Mukherjee.
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He added that U.S. authorities were expected to soon begin extradition proceedings for Horowitz, who was wanted for violating his parole by leaving the United States.
"We are extremely pleased to have this dangerous sexual predator in custody and look forward to bringing him back to New York," the head of New York state's Parole Division, George Alexander, said in a statement.
Horowitz, 60, an ordained orthodox rabbi and a child psychiatrist, was convicted by a Schenectady County court in 1992 of sexually abusing children aged 10 to 17 and spent 15 years in prison before being paroled in November 2004.
He left the United States in the spring of 2006 and reportedly visited a number of spots in Asia, including Thailand and Hong Kong, before arriving in India.
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