Jury Finds Nechemya Weberman, Satmar Hasidic Leader, Guilty of Molesting Teenage Girl He Was Paid to Counsel
Satmar Hasidic leader Nechemya Weberman at Brooklyn Supreme Court during jury deliberations on his trial for sexual abusing a girl when starting when she was 12 years old, in 2007.
A prominent Hasidic counselor was convicted yesterday of sexually abusing a young girl in a bombshell trial that caused deep rifts in Brooklyn’s insular Satmar sect.
Ultra-Orthodox counselor Nechemya Weberman, 54, was convicted on all 59 counts of abuse, including sustained sex abuse of a child and endangering the welfare of a child. He faces a maximum of 117 years in prison.