Ten Negro youths arrested in the attack last week on pupils of a Brooklyn yeshiva were released yesterday with a lecture by a Family Court judge after yeshiva officials dropped charges against them.
Some 16 of the pupils and two teachers of the United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth were roughed up and bruised in the attack on April 21 during a lunch-hour recess. One youth, who was seized in a citizen’s arrest by a city building inspector, was sentenced last week to an 18 month term in a state training school.
Rabbi Samuel Schrage, principal of the school, said yeshiva officials had decided that prosecution of the 10 youths would not serve any purpose since they and their parents had expressed contrition for taking part in the assault. Judge Maurice Bernhardt then dismissed the charges.
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