{"id":5915,"date":"2008-10-06T13:03:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T21:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2008-10-06T13:03:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T21:03:44","slug":"monsey-rabbi-charged-with-sexually-abusing-girl-for-near-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5915","title":{"rendered":"Monsey Rabbi Charged With Sexually Abusing Girl For Near A Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Lieberman writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Federal agents today arrested a Monsey-based rabbi on accusations that he had sex with a female relative over the course of a decade, starting when she was 9 years old.<\/font><\/p>\n

FBI agents arrested Rabbi Israel Weingarten, 58, at his Monsey home this morning on a grand jury indictment, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn.<\/font><\/p>\n

Weingarten is charged with five federal counts, accusing him of traveling around the world to have sex with the minor and avoid being charged.<\/font><\/p>\n

The indictment charges him with two counts of knowingly and intentionally transporting a minor in foreign commerce with the intent to engage in a sexual activity. He also is charged with three counts of knowingly and intentionally traveling in foreign commerce for the purpose of engaging in a sexual act with a minor.<\/font><\/p>\n

If convicted at trial, Weingarten faces an estimated prison term of 168 to 210 months in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.<\/font><\/p>\n

Weingarten is accused of abusing the young girl on a weekly and sometimes daily basis in Belgium, Israel and the United States, according to documents filed with the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.<\/font><\/p>\n

The girl left her family and the Satmar Hasidic Jewish community in September 1999, when she was 18 years old, federal documents state.<\/font><\/p>\n

Weingarten is accused of trying to kidnap her in 1999 from a family trying to protect her in England, according to the documents. He’s accused of assaulting that rabbi and his wife, who were trying to protect the girl.<\/font><\/p>\n

Weingarten, a married father of eight, teaches children for the Satmar Hasidic Jewish community, the documents said. He ran a Satmar school in Belgium and worked for religious elementary and secondary schools in Brooklyn.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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