Rabbi gets jail time over pool incident

[The Straight Story]

Rabbi gets jail time over pool incident


A Loudonville rabbi was sentenced Monday to 60 days in the Albany County jail for endangering the welfare of a child.

Rabbi Yaakov Weiss, 30, founder of the Chabad of Colonie and the Chabad Hebrew School, was handcuffed and led out by sheriff’s deputies to start his sentence.

“You have utterly failed to accept responsibility for your actions,” County Judge Stephen Herrick told Weiss, whose family and supporters sat in the courtroom. “You are not the victim here. The boys were the victims.”

In pleading guilty to the misdemeanor in January, Weiss admitted he had “inappropriate physical contact” with two naked 13-year-old boys in 2007 inside a small pool known as a mikveh on Whitehall Road in Albany. Weiss, a married father of three, also admitted to telling one boy not to tell the police about what happened.

“I want to apologize to everyone that’s been hurt,” Weiss said.

Herrick noted that Weiss was charged with four misdemeanor counts and pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child.

In addition to the 60 days in jail, Herrick sentenced Weiss to three years’ probation, issued two orders of protection to keep him away from the boys and ordered him to undergo sex offender counseling even though he is not classified as a sex offender.

http://blog.timesunion.com/crime/rabbi-gets-jail-time-over-pool-incident/3879/

60 days? That's pretty damned sad.

[Orrex]

1. This could really hurt his career options after he gets out of jail

He may have to become a priest.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Will NY state foot the bill for a religion transplant?

[Lerkfish]

2. well, at least the rabbi faced actual jail time and proper courts

which is not that common among catholic priests.

[LiberalFighter]

5. I wonder if any Catholic priests were ever in his court for similar incidents?

Oh wait a minute. They keep it out of court when it involves the Catholic church.

[The Straight Story]

6. And Jews keep it out of court a lot when it involves synagogues

How does that sound?

[Jim Sagle]

7. Sounds like a lie. But hey, you knew that.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Passive apology. Contrition would be "I'm sorry I hurt you. I can never apologize enough."

[orion007]

8. The Hasidic community in Brooklyn where I was born has the

very serious problem of parents protecting their Rabbis and not their children when told by their children of a sexual assault.
Thankfully this bastard was caught, but he should have gotten a much longer sentence and had to register as a sexual-offender.

[SoCalDem]

9. "...everyone that’s been hurt,..."..what a shithead "apology"

further objectifying his victims by referring to them as non-persons..and equivocating his non-apology..

and rest assured.. this is not the first time.. it's just the first time he got caught...

and such a short sentence too..

he'll "move on" and do it again..