NEW YORK
Frum Follies
Baruch Lebovits got out of jail yesterday (9/29/14), just 89 days after he started his most recent stint after sentencing on a plea bargain (7/9/14). He pled guilty to eight E felony counts (PL 130.40.2) of oral sex with a minor (aka “deviate sexual intercourse) and he is on the sex offender registry.
Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thompson’s crafted this insult to Brooklyn’s orthodox Jewish survivors in the spring, but now we feel the final sting of his whip. This Yom Kippur, Lebovits’ fine cantorial voice will piously intone about repentance. But he will be poster boy for unrepentant sinning. He never even apologized to to the victim who pressed charges, let alone the hundreds of other boys he sexually exploited.
Yom Kippur is of no avail for sins against another unless one first confesses, experiences regret, attempts rectification of harm, and sincerely seeks forgiveness. Lebovits has done none of these things, except as required to get a good plea deal in a secular lower court.
The unanswered question is why he served slightly more than 15 of the 24 months of his sentence through a combination of 1 year and 7 days after his overturned 2010 conviction and then just 89 days following his reconviction this spring. Mind you, when he was first convicted in 2010 he was sentenced to 10-32 years.
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