NY Daily News A prominent Hasidic counselor said he “never ever” sexually assaulted a beautiful Brooklyn girl, and testified he didn’t know anything about lingerie bought by a charity he founded.
Nechemya Weberman, taking the stand in a child-sex-abuse case, acknowledged Wednesday that he founded a charity and used it to pay for his salary and his kids’ education.[...]
Children who had issues following the sect’s strict rules would be
referred to him by schools or rabbis, he said, and he would then charge
their parents about $150 an hour to counsel them.
In her testimony last week, the alleged victim testified she objected
to the sect’s stringent dress code, which required thicker tights than
she cared to wear.
When he first counseled the teen who brought the charges against him,
“She was very quiet, looking down, closed in,” Weberman said. She slowly
opened up, he added, discussing religious questions and problems she
had at school and her home.
“At the beginning, we spoke a lot and I spent a lot of time with her to
understand what bothers her,” he said. Weberman acknowledged the
sessions cost her parents tens of thousands of dollars.
He was asked by his lawyer about the aim of the counseling sessions.
“To save her life,” Weberman replied.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/nyregion/nechemya-weberman-testifies-in-his-own-defense-in-sex-abuse-trial.html?_r=0
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ReplyDeleteAt least he admits to starting a charity to put money in his own pocket. Wow.
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