BOSTON, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Rabbi Stanley Lewis was sentenced to 10 years probation Thursday, a day after he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three Boston-area students in the 1970s.
He faced up to 40 years in prison, but Suffolk, Mass., Supreme Court Judge Geraldine Hines adhered to a plea agreement reached last fall, The Boston Globe reported.
Lewis was a teacher at the prestigious Maimonides School in Brookline, Mass., in 1975 and 1976, when the assaults occurred. Suffolk County prosecutors said two of the incidents took place in Lewis' home, the third while the victim recovered from hand surgery in Boston's Children's Hospital. Each of the victims was a sixth-grade boy.
After leaving Boston in 1980, Lewis was charged with molesting three more boys in Philadelphia. He was found not guilty in the first case, and received five years probation in the second. The third case was withdrawn.
As part of his sentence, Lewis must register as a sex offender, and have no unsupervised contact with children under age 17, the newspaper said.
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