NEW YORK (AP) — A teenage girl was offered $500,000 to leave the country instead of testifying in an upcoming sex abuse case against her former spiritual counselor in Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, prosecutors said Thursday.

Abraham Rubin, 48, offered the bribe to the girl and her boyfriend, telling them justice would be better served if they didn’t testify in the case against Nechemya Weberman, prosecutors said. Three other men also tried to harass the accuser into silence, they said.