Potomac rabbi convicted of sex crimes

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A federal court Wednesday convicted a Potomac rabbi who solicited sex from what he believed was a 13-year-old boy on a nationally televised Internet predator sting.

Rabbi David Kaye was charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria in May with coercion and enticement and traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual contact. Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 1, and Kaye faces up to 60 years in prison.

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