NEW YORK
New York Daily News
Joanna Molloy
The victim looked like a typical teenager in her peach sparkly top, short black skirt, tights and Ugg boots —a stylish getup that somehow still satisfied Hasidic rules of modesty. But the 18-year-old may as well have been wearing a cape as she confronted her sexual predator at his sentencing in Brooklyn Criminal Court Tuesday.
Nechemya Weberman, her trusted counselor, had sexually molested her as often as four times a week —starting when she was 12, when she should have been worried about nothing more than the homework in her teddy bear backpack.
But thanks to her slimeball counselor, the “normal young teenage life” the little girl longed for was replaced with repulsion every time she looked in the mirror.
Instead of her reflection, she told the courtroom she saw “a sad girl” who was stuck being victimized by a 50-year-old pervert —her forthright tone turning to tears when she spoke his age. She saw the sickening acts she was forced to perform for his pleasure again and again.
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