NEW YORK
Las Vegas Sun

The Associated Press

Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013

A religious counselor in New York’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community is facing 25 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl who came to him for help.

Nechemya Weberman (nuh-HEHM’-yuh) is scheduled for sentencing Tuesday. He was convicted in December of sustained sexual abuse of a child. The trial put a spotlight on the insular Satmar Hasidic sect and its strict rules governing clothing, social customs and interaction with the outside world.