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New York Daily News
BY OREN YANIV
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2014
A Brooklyn judge’s attempt to broker peace Wednesday between a rabbi who advocates against child sex abuse and a Hasid who threw bleach in his face resulted in bupkis.
Justice Joseph Gubbay asked Meilech Schnitzler to apologize to Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, before he got sentenced to five years’ probation for the December 2012 Clorex attack.
“I want to say sorry for what I did,” Schnitzler, 38, a Williamsburg fishmonger, said awkwardly. “Can you please forgive me?”
But the eccentric activist was having none of it.
“No,” he replied in Brooklyn Supreme Court, “because you didn’t harm me. You harmed all the children I represent.”
Outside the courtroom, Rosenberg, 64, said he “felt very awful” about the jurist’s unexpected olive branch.
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