© Anthony Lanzilote New York Daily NewsYoel Malik got a generous plea deal after the victims declined to move forward with the case.
Yoel Malik, 33, a member of the Satmar Hasidic sect, was given the generous plea deal after the victims were extremely reluctant to testify publicly, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the case.
In 2013, Malik was charged with 28 criminal counts and shamelessly blamed his underage victims for trying to seduce him, police sources said.
The boys were all students at Ohr Hameir, a now-shuttered Satmar yeshiva in Borough Park. The alleged victims were between 13 and 16 when the incidents occurred.
The rabbi was accused of groping all four boys in motels, prosecutors said after his arrest.
The twisted teacher also allegedly forced two of the boys to perform oral sex on him.
One of the victims was also forced to perform oral sex on Malik inside his car parked near a cemetery on a separate occasion, according to prosecutors.
In 2014, he pleaded guilty to a felony, luring a child, and a misdemeanor count of sexual misconduct, records show.
© Anthony Lanzilote New York Daily NewsIn 2013, Yoel Malik was charged with 28 criminal counts and shamelessly blamed his underage victims for trying to seduce him, police sources said.
As part of the deal, the felony was dismissed upon completion of probation supervision. On Tuesday, he was sent to Rikers Island for 60 days for the misdemeanor offense.
Advocates for child sex-abuse victims questioned the deal. "What DA (Kenneth) Thompson has done is inexplicable," said Ben Hirsch, a spokesman for Survivors for Justice. "Through unexplained plea deals such as this, he has effectively quashed any willingness on the part of victims to come forward."
Malik's lawyer, Roger Adler, said sarcastically: "I will concede he wasn't burnt at the stake. He wasn't stoned running through the village."
It's a "significant" punishment when any first-time offender gets sentenced to jail, he added.
Comment: It is despicable, but all too common that sexual predators are often given what amounts to a slap on the wrist - if they are even brought to justice. The vast majority of these crimes are covered-up; not surprising considering the evidence that perversion is disgustingly common among the powerful.