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Former teacher gets 18 years in bartender's rape

A former Three Village schoolteacher who admitted to raping a bartender was sentenced Wednesday to 18 years in prison.

Michael Wachholder, 31, of Rocky Point, carried out "every woman's worst nightmare" on Feb. 3 when he raped the woman in a Mount Sinai bar, said Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Carl Borelli.

The victim sat in the back of the Riverhead courtroom with supporters during...

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