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Merrick teacher accused of rape faces new charges

Originally published: September 3, 2009 9:02 PM
Updated: September 3, 2009 9:56 PM
By MATTHEW CHAYES AND JOSEPH MALLIA  matthew.chayes@newsday.com, joseph.mallia@newsday.com

Quick ReadCops said the 28-year-old lied to his victims and told them he was 17.

Daniel Rothbard Police said that an officer found

Photo credit: SCPD | Daniel Rothbard
Police said that an officer found Daniel Rothbard, 28, of Merrick in a car with a teenage girl in the parking lot of a West Islip elementary school. (July 21, 2009)

A schoolteacher from Merrick, arrested earlier this summer on a charge of raping a 15-year-old girl in Suffolk, now faces new charges in Nassau of sexual misconduct with two more underage girls.

Police say Daniel Rothbard, of Meadowbrook Avenue, surrendered Thursday morning to face charges of criminal sexual act, a felony, and two counts of child endangerment.

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