NYC professor who threatened Post reporter with a machete avoids jail with wrist-slap therapy plea deal
Shellyne Rodriguez, 46, will dodge jail time and won’t even have a criminal record if she makes it through as little as six months in therapy under the terms of her sweetheart deal with Bronx prosecutors.
Rodriguez – who was axed from her Hunter College gig hours after the caught-on-video May 23 assault on reporter Reuven Fenton – pleaded guilty to a count of menacing, a misdemeanor, and to a harassment violation.
Her record will be wiped clean if she completes counseling at the Alternative Wellness Collective of Manhattan and stays out of trouble for up to a year, Judge Dan Quart said in Bronx Criminal Court.
“The terms are no new arrests before final sentencing, which will be a completion or after a completion of behavioral modification therapy no shorter than six months and no longer than 12 months,” Quart told Rodriguez.
Asked if she admitted that she “acted in a harassing and annoying manner,” Rodriguez answered, “Yes.”
The disgraced adjunct – who has a new gig teaching a sculpture class at Cooper Union for the fall semester – arrived to court with an entourage of supporters who used jackets and umbrellas to shield her from news photographers and reporters.
She did not comment as she left the courthouse following the hearing.
Rodriguez first made headlines when she was caught on video flipping out on a group of students who set up a table with anti-abortion materials at Hunter on May 2.
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