NEW YORK
The New York Times
By SHARON OTTERMAN
Published: December 10, 2012
Nechemya Weberman, an unlicensed ultra-Orthodox Jewish counselor in Brooklyn’s tight-knit Satmar Hasidic community, was convicted on Monday of repeatedly sexually abusing a girl in his care.
A State Supreme Court jury found Mr. Weberman guilty on multiple counts — all the charges he was facing after a judge had consolidated the 88 charges brought by Mr. Hynes’s office. He faces at least 25 years in prison, according to The Associated Press.
The verdict was a significant victory for Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney, whose office has been criticized for not acting aggressively enough against sexual abusers in the borough’s large and politically connected Hasidic community. The case was a difficult one, because there was no physical evidence; the trial hinged on the credibility of Mr. Weberman and his accuser.
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