A rabbi who once taught schoolchildren in Brookline was arraigned today for allegedly assaulting one of them in Brighton more than 30 years ago, bringing the number of his alleged victims to three, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

STANLEY Z. LEVITT (D.O.B. 4/4/46) of Philadelphia was arraigned on a single count of indecent assault and battery on a child – the fifth such indictment currently pending against him in Suffolk County. Levitt was indicted late last year on four counts of the same offense representing offenses he allegedly committed upon two other boys.

Assistant District Attorney Wayne Margolis of Conley’s Child Protection Unit told Suffolk Superior Court Clerk Magistrate Gary Wilson that the most recent allegations came to light following those prior indictments.

“The victim came forward after viewing media reports of those prior cases,” Margolis said.

Margolis told the court that the abuse took place during the 1975-1976 academic year, when he was a student at the Maimonides School in Brookline. Levitt, who lived on Chiswick Road in Brighton, taught at that school from 1974 to 1977. He departed Massachusetts at some point thereafter, eventually making his way to Philadelphia.

“The victim recalls that he was invited with several other boys to attend a sleepover and study session at the defendant’s home,” Margolis said. “The defendant instructed all the boys to shower before going to bed. When the victim exited the shower, the defendant was standing there with a towel and said he needed to towel the defendant off.”

It was at that point that Levitt allegedly assaulted the boy, Margolis said.

Margolis led the grand jury investigation that resulted in the most recent indictment and the four that preceded it. Last year’s indictments allege that Levitt went to visit one injured student in a Boston hospital and sexually assaulted him, and that he assaulted a different boy three times during the course of a weekend visit to Levitt’s home while the boy’s parents were out of town. Those incidents took place in 1975. All of the victims were about 11 years old

Levitt’s trial on the earlier indictments is scheduled for July 12. Conley said that date will likely be pushed back as prosecutors attempt to join the most recent indictment with those cases.

Philip Harrison is the DA’s victim-witness advocate on the case. The defendant is represented by attorney Scott Curtis.