NEW YORK
The Journal News
Steve Lieberman
slieberm@lohud.com 3:47 p.m. EDT August 12, 2014
A prominent Monsey rabbi who runs a boys school pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning to charges he sexually assaulted a 7-year-old male student repeatedly in his yeshiva office.
Gavriel Bodenheimer, 71, principal of Yeshiva Bais Mikroh for decades, stood shackled at the waist during his arraignment on three counts of first-degree criminal sexual act and one count of first-degree sex abuse.
Judge William Nelson set Bodenheimer’s bail at $25,000 cash or bond. The rabbi’s lawywer, Deborah Wolikow-Loewenberg, said he would be able to post bail and be released later Tuesday.
“We are going to fight the allegations because they are not true,” Wolikow-Loewenberg said after the court session.
Ramapo police arrested Bodenheimer Monday based on a sealed grand jury indictment. He was kept overnight at the Rockland County jail in New City pending his court appearance, when the indictment was unsealed.
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