NEW YORK
The Journal News
Steve Lieberman, slieberm@lohud.com
The lawyer for a Monsey rabbi accused of sexually abusing a 7-year-old boy says two police-controlled telephone calls involving the child will help prove the school administrator never touched the child.
Rabbi Gavriel Bodenheimer, 71, principal of Yeshiva Bais Mikroh, has rejected a plea agreement with state prison time and will fight the sexual abuse charges at trial, his attorney, Kenneth Gribetz, said.
In some sexual abuse investigations, the police have their victim call the abuser to get statements of guilt or attrition that can be used in the prosecution.
In two recorded conversations concerning sexual acts, Bodenheimer told the boy that he didn’t know what the boy was talking about “and he should go to the police if he has concerns,” Gribetz said.
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