Emanuel Yegutkin, Ex-Yeshiva Leader Gets 55-Year Term

The former principal of a Brooklyn yeshiva who had been convicted of sexually abusing three boys over a 10-year period has been sentenced to 55 years in prison.

The Brooklyn district attorney’s office said on Thursday that the man, Emanuel Yegutkin, 33, was sentenced after being convicted on multiple sex charges in December.

Mr. Yegutkin was arrested in 2009. He was earlier the principal of Elite High School, a private Jewish school in Bensonhurst.

Prosecutors say Mr. Yegutkin abused two boys, who are brothers but not students at his school, after he became friends with their family.