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New York Daily News
By Simone Weichselbaum / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
He promised to drive her around in a limo, to take her on trips and let her move in with him.
He wanted to know what she wanted to do with a boy — and when she innocently replied that she wanted to hold hands, he responded, “That’s it?”
In a simple but harrowing account, a young woman who claimed she was one of Nechemya Weberman’s former clients recounted her sessions with the corrupt counselor on a blog called “A child’s voice.”
“He painted rosy pictures of the fabulous things we will do together,” she wrote. “He was the first adult that was ever nice to me.”
Sex abuse experts said her account shows how the once-respected religious leader was really a child predator in disguise.
“One way of grooming is to send up a little signal and see how far it goes. Like, ‘Can I take you home?’ It all starts out friendly,” said psychologist Richard Gartner.
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