St. PAUL (MN)
Pioneer Press
January 16, 2019
By Sarah Norner
A former rabbi at a Jewish learning center in Minneapolis won’t serve jail time for making arrangements online with someone he thought was a child for sex.
Aryeh Cohen, 44, received a stayed 30-day sentence from a Ramsey County district judge at his sentencing hearing Wednesday afternoon.
The St. Louis Park man also was placed on probation for three years, ordered to serve 150 hours of community service, undergo mental health counseling and register as a sex offender.
Cohen was working as a rabbi and director of youth outreach for the Minneapolis Community Kollel when he was arrested last winter as part of a metro-area law enforcement sting aimed at combating online solicitation of sex [https://www.twincities.com/2018/08/02/minneapolis-rabbi-aryeh-cohen-among-those-charged-in-twin-cities-underage-sex-stings] with children. The operation was carried out in advance of Super Bowl LII, which was being held in Minneapolis on Feb. 4.
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