Gregory P. Mango
Nechemya Weberman.
Nechemya Weberman, the prominent Hasidic counselor convicted of sexually abusing a young girl, was sentenced today to 103 years in prison for his heinous crimes.
Weberman is now doomed to die behind bars for his years-long abuse of a now-18-year-old woman. She was only 12 when the abuse began.
The kiddie-sex fiend was found guilty on all 59 counts of abuse by a Brooklyn jury in December. He’s been in jail ever since, awaiting today’s sentencing.
Weberman’s trial tore apart the incredibly private Satmar Hasidic sect, pitting the defendant’s fierce loyalists against the victim’s supporters who claimed the community turned a blind eye to abuse.
The victim sobbed while telling the court how Weberman stole her teenage years.
“I clearly remember how I would look in the mirror and saw a girl who didn’t want to live in her own skin,” she said.
“A girl who couldn’t sleep at night because of the gruesome abuse that had been done to her body. A sad girl who wished so badly she could live a normal teenage life but instead was victimized by a 54-year-old man who forced her to perform sickening acts, again and again, for his sadistic pleasure.”
Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes said the trial and 103-year sentence showed his prosecutors can win justice for victims, even if insular communities want it "swept under the rug."
“If there is one message to take away from this case it is that this office will pursue the evil of sexual abuse of a child no matter where it occurs in this county. We must protect our children from sexual predators," Hynes said.
"The abuse of a child cannot be swept under the rug or dealt with by insular groups believing only they know what is best for their community. In this case it took the courage of a young woman to drive home the point that justice can only be achieved through the involvement of civil authorities charged with protecting all the people."
The abuse went from 2007 to 2010, prosecutors said, as the girl was forced into sex acts that happened mostly in Weberman's office.
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