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	Rabbi Charged with Assaults in ’70s By Maria Chutchian Boston Globe October 8, 2009 http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/10/08/rabbi_charged_with_assaults_in_70s/ A rabbi who formerly taught at a Jewish day school in Brookline was charged yesterday with the sexual assault of two minors more than 30 years ago, said Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley. Rabbi Stanley Zusia Levitt, 63, of Philadelphia was charged with four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child dating from 1975, each of which carries a 10-year prison sentence, said a statement issued by Conley. Levitt was released on $5,000 bail following arraignment and was ordered to have no unsupervised contact with children while the case is pending. Levitt was a teacher at the Maimonides School in Brookline from 1974 to 1977. The minors he is accused of assaulting were then 11-year-old male students. One incident allegedly took place while Levitt visited a student who was hospitalized for a hand injury at Children’s Hospital. The other allegedly happened when a student went to Levitt’s former residence in Brighton over a weekend, when the boy was assaulted three times, Conley said in his statement. Levitt could not be reached for comment yesterday. He has prior convictions in Philadelphia for indecent assault and corruption of a minor. Prosecutors would not have been able to charge Levitt if he had stayed in Massachusetts, because the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse would have expired. When the rabbi moved to Philadelphia, the clock stopped for the statute since he was out of state.
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