Riverdale
Man Who Viewed Images on Russian Website
Pleads Guilty With 96 Month Guideline
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 27 – Yoel Belitz of
Riverdale in The Bronx, New
York was charged with viewing
(very) underage sex including
on a Russian website.
On
May 27, U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Jed S. Rakoff
held an in-person change of
plea proceeding. Inner City
Press went and covered
it.
Belitz told Judge
Rakoff that it was between
June 2020 and October 2020
that he had viewed the images.
When Judge Rakoff
asked him if he had known it
was wrong, he pointed to his
lawyer.
The defense
lawyer said, Can I be heard
for a moment?
Judge
Rakoff said, You can be heard,
but if it did not know it was
wrong, I will not accept the
plea. It was
smoothed over: Belitz did not
know the statute, but knew it
was wrong.
The plea, to a
guideline of 96 to 121 months,
was accept. Sentencing is set
for October 11 at 4 pm.
The case is US v.
Belitz, 21-cr-693
(Rakoff).
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