By John Marzulli
New York Daily News
May 9, 2009
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/05/09/2009-05-09_hasidic_rabbi_israel_weingarten_ convicted_of_daughters_sex_molest_sentenced_to_3.html
No sympathy for the devil.
Remorseless to the end, a Hasidic rabbi convicted of molesting his daughter was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.
Israel Weingarten, 59, represented himself against charges that he molested his daughter beginning in 1990 when she was 9 until she reached the age of 18.
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| Rabbi Israel Weingarten at his federal trial for allegedly sexually abusing his daughter. Photo by Jane Rosenberg |
Federal Judge John Gleeson said the rabbi chose to defend himself in order to cross-examine the victim in an attempt to control her again. "You seemed to enjoy yourself in a perverse sort of way," Gleeson said. "It's hard to make a crime like this worse, but you did." The judge said he will never forget the victim, now 27, begging him from the witness stand to order Weingarten never to speak her name again. "If I live to 100, that's an image I will take to my grave," Gleeson said.
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