By Scott Shifrel
New York Daily News
September 13, 2007
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/09/13/2007-09-13_rabbi_yehuda_kolko_accused_of_molesting_-2.html
A rabbi in a tallith, black hat and handcuffs was hauled before a Brooklyn judge hours before the Jewish New Year yesterday for allegedly molesting another boy at a Midwood yeshiva.
Rabbi Yehuda Kolko - already out on $10,000 bail on charges of sexually assaulting two other male students - rocked back and forth on his feet as his lawyer argued with the judge about bail on new charges that he molested a first-grader at the school in 2005.
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"This is the holiest time of the year and to [increase] bail at this time is punitive," lawyer Jeffrey Schneider said, arguing that the charges stemmed from a malcontent who had it in for the 61-year-old Kolko. "[The higher bail is] just bizarre."
"Counselor, you chose this time to surrender him," Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Cassandra Mullen shot back.
She raised the bail to $50,000 bond, $25,000 cash.
Kolko's wife, Edith, brought the cash within the hour and he was released in time to pray at evening Rosh Hashanah services.
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