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Rabbi Ephraim (Frederick) Ephraim Karp, 51, pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a minor and a third-degree sex offense. He was sentenced in Maryland, the home county of the victims, all females. He had been scheduled to go on trial later this month.

On Thursday, October 15, Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Robert E. Cahill Jr. sentenced Rabbi Ephraim Karp, 51 to 35 years in prison with 13 years suspended plus five years of supervised probation upon his release, the Cleveland Jewish News reported.

Rabbi Ephraim (Frederick) Ephraim Karp, 51, pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a minor and a third-degree sex offense. He was sentenced in Maryland, the home county of the victims, all females. He had been scheduled to go on trial later this month.

According to HaAretz, the abuse reportedly took place when family friends visited the Karp’s suburban Cleveland home, and also when he visited the family, over a five-year period that ended last December. The victims lived in Baltimore County at the time of the incidents. Two of the three were under the age of 18.

Karp is the former director of spiritual living at Menorah Park Center for Senior Living in Beachwood, Ohio. Karp was also president of Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains until being suspended from the position in January. His employment status at Menorah Park was terminated this summer.

He was arrested the same month at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York while on his way to New York for the association’s annual conference, the Baltimore Jewish Times reported.

Baltimore County Prosecutor Lisa Dever, chief of the sex offense and child abuse division in the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office, said the state was asking for a 35-year sentence for Karp, with all but five to be served in prison.

“We believed he deserved to go to prison for 30 years, based on the fact that two of the three victims in this case were under 18 at the time the events occurred,” Dever said. “But I feel, based on the information that the judge had heard from both the defense and the state, the sentences are reasonable sentences.”

Dever said the third victim was 18 or over at the time of the events. She said all three victims were females, but she would not disclose their ages. “Cleveland agreed we could take the lead on the prosecution and that we would encompass their events in our plea,” she said.

The Cleveland Jewish News reported that a criminal trial for Karp had been scheduled for October 28. Karp was indicted on February 23 by the state’s attorney’s office for Baltimore County on charges of sexual abuse of a minor, continuing course of conduct; perverted practice and second- and third-degree sex offenses.

The state’s attorney’s office reported in January that from July 4, 2009, to December 10, 2014, Karp visited a family that he was friendly with in Baltimore County. During those visits, Karp sexually assaulted a minor female, the office stated.

Dina Hoffmann

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