BROOKLYN CANTOR WHO PLEADED GUILTY TO MOLESTING BOY RELEASED FROM PRISON AFTER LESS THAN THREE MONTHS

Daily News/Oren Yaniv
9/30/14


Baruch Lebovits, 62, has taken a deal for a two year sentence, having already served 13months before appealing his original 32 year sentence, and was released on good behavior. Less than three months after getting sent to prison he was set free.  His previous conviction,for which he was sentenced to up to 32 years in prison, was overturned on appeal amid charges thatanother Hasidic Jew, Samuel Kellner, paid off witnesses and before yet another man admitted hetried to extort Lebovits's son.  Lebovits, who admitted to abuse of one child in 2004 but hasbeen accused by community activists of victimizing many more, has been designated a level 2 sexoffender.