NEW YORK
Wall Street Journal

By Pervaiz Shallwani

The young woman who accused a respected ultra-Orthodox Jewish counselor of sexual abuse wrapped up her testimony Friday afternoon, telling jurors that she came forward because she felt a sense of “responsibility.”

Asked by prosecutors why she decided to step forward after three years of allegedly being abused by Nechemya Weberman, 54 years old, the 17-year-old testified, “I felt like I had a responsibility.”

“I didn’t want anybody else to go through what I went through,” she said.

Asked why she did not come forward sooner, the girl said ”I thought they would never believe me, because he is supposedly a God in Williamsburg.”

The girl also told jurors that Weberman made her watch pornography on a computer in his office.

She spent more than 15 hours over four days on the stand in Brooklyn Supreme Court. The majority of the…