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GREENSBORO — A former American Hebrew Academy rabbi received three years’ probation after pleading guilty Monday to taking indecent liberties with a student.

David Alan Stein, 37, the former director of campus life for the private school, will be on supervised probation for three years, according to the Guilford County District Attorney’s Office.

In October 2007, police charged Stein with eight counts of having sex with a student. Those charges were reduced to eight counts of indecent liberty with a student, and additional felony sex offense charges were dropped as part of the plea.

The judge suspended a sentence of three consecutive prison terms of a minimum six months each. Stein also was ordered to have no contact with the former student, now a college sophomore, or his parents.

The probation likely will be transferred to California, where Stein now lives, the district attorney’s office said. Stein had moved in with his parents and started working with an insurance company after he was first charged in 2007, police said at the time.

The incidents took place during the 2006-07 school year on the campus of American Hebrew Academy and involved a 16-year-old male student, police said at the time. Stein left the school in the spring, shortly after police began investigating him.

The coed boarding school served about 135 high school students and employed 80 people at the time. Students from around the world attend the school, which combines college preparatory and Jewish studies.

The school is on a 100-acre campus off Hobbs Road.

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