ברעיקינג: ארכי מוסר ארעסטירט אין בארא פארק

The rabbi, Baruch Lebovits, was sentenced last year to up to 32 years in prison.

District Attorney Charles J. Hynes says a new indictment charges Samuel Kellner with perjury.

The prosecutor says Kellner found out in 2008 that the rabbi had been accused of molesting a child, then got the second child to make similar claims.

Kellner also is accused of demanding $400,000 from the rabbi's family while saying he could have other children make allegations against him.

The name of Kellner's attorney was not immediately on record.

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The indictment charges that, in 2008, after a Borough Park man learned that Mr. L had been accused of sexually molesting a child, the man paid a second child $10,000 to falsely claim that L. also abused him. Both children testified before a Kings County Grand Jury which ultimately charged L with both misdemeanor and felony sex abuse counts.

According to the indictment against the man. he next sent emissaries to the L. family demanding $400,000, in exchange for which, the man would prevent those witnesses from testifying at trial and prevent a third “victim” from coming forward, according to the indictment. The L.. family did not comply with the demand, and in November 2008, a third “victim” did come forward, the indictment charges. the man later threatened to bring a fourth “victim” to testify, according to the indictment.

In March 2010 L. was convicted of eight counts of Criminal Sexual Act in the Third Degree, with the testimony of the third witness. The second witness did not testify at the trial.