NEW YORK
New York Daily News
By Oren Yaniv / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
A once-respected Hasidic counselor accused of sexually assaulting a Brooklyn girl is expected to take the stand in his own defense Wednesday .
Nechemya Weberman, 54, is accused by the teenager of forcing her to perform oral sex and reenact porn during three years of spiritual counseling that started when she was 12.
Tuesday’s witnesses represented the torturous journey of the alleged victim — who turns 18 Wednesday — from a student who rebelled against the strict modesty rules at her Satmar school to a “depressed” teen who reported the purported abuse. In December 2010, social worker Sarah Fried testified in Brooklyn Supreme Court, the “very anxious” girl recounted her “trauma.”
“At the end of the session, she uttered the words ‘I was molested,’” Fried testified, “then ran out of the office.”
It wasn’t until February 2011 that the girl named Weberman – an accusation the defense contends was motivated by revenge upon learning the counselor set up her boyfriend to be arrested.
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