Rabbi Accused Of Assaulting Another Boy
Man To Face Charges In Brighton Incident
WCVBTV (Boston) - June 30, 2010
BOSTON -- A rabbi who once taught schoolchildren in Brookline was accused of assaulting a child in Brighton more than 30 years ago, bringing the number of his alleged victims to three.
Stanley Levitt, 64, of Philadelphia, was arraigned Wednesday on one charge of indecent assault and battery on a child, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said. It is the fifth such indictment currently pending against him in Suffolk County.
Levitt was indicted late last year on four counts of the same offense representing offenses he allegedly committed upon two other boys. The latest victim came forward after viewing media reports of the prior cases, according to Assistant District Attorney Wayne Margolis.
Margolis said that the alleged abuse took place during the 1975-1976 academic year, when the victim was a student at the Maimonides School in Brookline.
Levitt, who lived on Chiswick Road in Brighton, taught at that school from 1974 to 1977. He left Massachusetts at some point thereafter, eventually making his way to Philadelphia.
"The victim recalls that he was invited with several other boys to attend a sleepover and study session at the defendant’s home," Margolis said. "The defendant instructed all the boys to shower before going to bed. When the victim exited the shower, the defendant was standing there with a towel and said he needed to towel the defendant off."
It was at that point that Levitt allegedly assaulted the boy, Margolis said.
Margolis led the grand jury investigation that resulted in the most recent indictment and the four that preceded it. Last year's indictments allege that Levitt went to visit one injured student in a Boston hospital and sexually assaulted him and that he assaulted a different boy three times during the course of a weekend visit to Levitt's home while the boy's parents were out of town. Those alleged incidents took place in 1975. All of the victims were about 11 years old.
