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	Cantor Sentenced in Child Abuse Case 6 ABC September 19, 2006 http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=4577769 Norristown, Pa. - September 19, 2006 - Cantor Howard Nevison was sentenced to probation on Tuesday after earlier pleading guilty to child abuse charges. Two sharply different views of Nevison emerged at the hearing. To his 16-year-old nephew , Nevison is " a pathetic old man who hurt me long ago...I think what he did was disgusting." In June, Nevison pleaded guilty to sexually abusing the then 3-year-old boy at the boy's home in Lower Merion in the 1990's. Nevison's was a well respected staffer at one of Manhattans best know synagogues. Congregants traveled to Norristown to repeatedly praise the cantor as gentle and kind at Tuesday's hearing. Fearing appeals could go on for years, the victim's family earlier agreed to a deal dropping felony charges with Nevison pleading guilty to lesser misdemeanor counts. Before the cantor could return to New York on Tuesday, the judge directed him to first take a tour of the county prison. The apparent reason behind the unusual field trip to make clear to the 65-year-old convicted molester should he get in trouble again prison will be where he will likely end up.
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