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Defense claims teen rape accuser of Hasidic leader Nechemya Weberman is seeking ‘revenge’
By Oren Yaniv/ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
A teenager accused a prominent Hasidic leader of raping her only after she learned he persuaded her father to secretly record her having sex with a boyfriend, defense lawyers argued Wednesday.
The explosive allegation was made in Brooklyn Supreme Court as the trial date for the Satmar leader, Nechemya Weberman, 53, was set for the end of October.
“There is a motive of revenge,” defense lawyer George Farkas said when asking to introduce the sex tape evidence at trial.
“I haven’t seen the video, but I heard it’s very explicit,” a source said.
Prosecutors acknowledged the tape was shown to them and that the case against the boyfriend was eventually dropped. They note that Weberman accompanied the father to the district attorney’s office in 2010 to make an allegation of statutory rape.
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