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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – An unlicensed counselor in Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community was sentenced to 103 years in prison Tuesday for the sexual abuse of a girl who came to him with questions about her faith.
Nechemya Weberman was convicted in December of sustained sexual abuse of a child and other charges.
Weberman was not a licensed counselor but spent decades working with couples and families in his community.
The girl, now 18, testified for days about the abuse. She said it started when she was 12 and lasted until she was 15. She had been questioning her faith and her teachers felt she was straying from the right path, so they sent her to Weberman for guidance. Instead, she said, he molested her.
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