NEW YORK
New York Daily News
By Oren Yaniv , Simone Weichselbaum AND Ginger Adams Otis / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, December 10, 2012
A prominent Hasidic counselor was convicted yesterday of sexually abusing a young girl in a bombshell trial that caused deep rifts in Brooklyn’s insular Satmar sect.
Ultra-Orthodox counselor Nechemya Weberman, 54, was convicted on all 59 counts of abuse, including sustained sex abuse of a child and endangering the welfare of a child. He faces a maximum of 117 years in prison.
Weberman sat silently in the Brooklyn courtroom as the results were read, before being led from the court room in handcuffs.
The victim – who testified that she “wanted to die rather than live with herself” as the monster violated her during the closed-door molestation sessions – cried tears of joy when she got the news, she told Daily News.
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