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An esteemed religious counselor in New York City's ultra-orthodox Jewish community was sentenced Tuesday to 103 years in prison for molesting a girl who came to him with questions about her faith.

Nechemya Weberman was convicted in December of 59 counts, including sustained sexual abuse of a child, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse. He testified in his own defense, saying he "never, ever" abused the girl, and maintained his innocence at sentencing.

His trial put a spotlight on the ultra-orthodox community and its strict rules that govern clothing, social customs and interaction with the outside world. Brooklyn is home to the largest community of ultra-orthodox Jews outside Israel, more than 250,000. Both Weberman, 54, and the accuser belonged to the Satmar Hasidic sect there.

The girl's school had ordered her to see Weberman because she had been asking questions about her religion and was dressing immodestly in violation of customs, and he was help her get back on the right path. Weberman wasn't a licensed counselor but spent decades working with couples and families in his community.

The accuser, now 18, had testified that Weberman abused her repeatedly behind his locked office door from the time she was 12 until she was 15. "I clearly remember how I would look in the mirror," she said at Tuesday's sentencing, her small voice shaking. "I saw a girl who didn't want to live in her own skin, ... a girl whose innocence was shattered, ... a girl who couldn't sleep at night because the horrifying images of the recent gruesome invasions which had been done to her body kept replaying in her head."

She said she was "sad girl who so badly wished she could have lived a normal young teenage life but instead was stuck being victimized by a 50-year-old man who forced her to experience and perform sickening acts for his sick sense of pleasure again and again."

She said she was speaking for many others who had been victimized by Weberman, but lacked the courage to come forward. Weberman hasn't been charged in any other molestation case. But the girl expressed hope that by coming forward, she could give strength to other victims of sexual abuse. The Associated Press typically doesn't identify people who say they are the victims of sexual assault.

Her husband, Hershey Deutsch, spoke to reporters and TV news cameras outside court, recounting through tears how difficult it was to watch her struggle with coming forward. "She definitely feels relief. She can sleep more tonight," he said.

Judge John Ingram praised the teen's courage, saying he also hoped it would set an example for other victims of sexual abuse. "This message should go out to all victims of sexual abuse: Your cries will be heard. Justice will be done. You should report," the judge said.

The teen and her family have been harassed and ostracized, reflecting long-held beliefs that any conflict must be dealt with from within. During the trial, men were arrested on charges they tried to bribe the accuser and Deutsch to drop the case. Others were accused of snapping photos of her on the witness stand and posting them online. Those cases are pending.

"We still get threats but this is not going to change anything," Deutsch said. "We're here to protect the future and the future of our children." The court received dozens of letters from supporters of the defendant. They described his life in the community as a counselor and a father, and many proclaimed his innocence.

One said jailing Weberman would be "a loss of great magnitude for our family, in particular, to mankind in general." Weberman said "no thank you" when asked if he wished to speak. He and his wife had no visible reaction to the sentence.

"Nechemya Weberman is innocent of the crimes charged," defense attorney George Farkas insisted at the sentencing. They said they would appeal immediately. "He stands ready to be vindicated." As Weberman was being led from the courtroom in handcuffs, he looked toward his family and other supporters, smiled and nodded. The top charge carried a sentence of 25 years; he got consecutive terms for some of the other lesser charges.

The defense argued that the girl was angry that Weberman had told her parents she had a boyfriend at age 15, forbidden in her community. Defense attorney Stacey Richman said the case boiled down to a simple "he said, she said," and the girl was a petulant, calculating liar.

"The only evidence in this case of sexual abuse is the word of" the accuser, Richman told jurors. "She's making things up in front of you as they occur." But the jury took just hours to convict Weberman on all counts on Dec. 10.

The Satmar sect is one faction clustered mostly in the Williamsburg neighborhood. The group has its own ambulances, volunteer police and rabbinical courts, and they are discouraged from going to secular authorities.

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said he hoped the case would persuade other victims to come forward. Hynes has been accused of overlooking crimes in the community because he was too cozy with powerful rabbis, a charge he vehemently denies.

Judge Ingram on Tuesday urged detractors to leave the girl alone to live a good life with her husband. "This cannot be tolerated in a free society," he said.

http://www.mail.com/news/us/1837822-ny-orthodox-counselor-103-years-sex-abuse.html#.7518-stage-hero1-4

planetuzor: God spared my Live Once Again..Was coming back to lagos from osun state, then took a bus at the garage in ibadan Iwo road. On the Journey our bus ran into a Gang of Armed Robbers on Lagos Ibadan Express way. They pointed the Gun on our driver from afar so he stopped at their point.

3 of the robbers that stopped the bus was with gun while the remaining five were with matches n small knives..

I was sitting at the extreme end (window side) at the first row of a 14 passenger small bus.. just by my side was one of the armed robber with gun. So while the other robbers where asking all of us to come down,bring our Money, Phone.

Just as all of us were still inside the bus the next thing i heard was a gunshot from the gunman standing outside directly behind my window side facing me. and he shot a the gun toward us in the car, the gun pieced the window and I thought I had been shot and i didnt feel it but when i looked at my self there was no sign of gunshot but the next row behind me a guy was hit by the bullet with blood splashing on my back and likewise the person sitting behind him.

I quickly handed over my bags, Phone, and money while all of us where lying flat down on the express way.. For like 10inutes It was as if i was watching African Magic Nolly-wood film. I couldn't believe my eyes. This was d first time I am experiencing such...

When the robbers left, we tried looking for who will rescue us but nobody was coming, all the buses and cars from the left and right had turn around at the sight of what was happening. Our driver tried starting our own car so we can leave immediately, the car didn't start, we pushed n pushed nothing.

And if you knew the spot we where at Lagos-Ibadan express way, it all bushes if u look left or right, U cant trek it, You can go forward or backwards. No car wanna stop, infact no one was coming, they had all fled. Already the guy shot is already bleeding seriously-Then somehow an hiace bus was coming slowly and steadily trying to thinking we were even robbers because all of our passengers had already blocked and covered the road. we beg him he didnt want to carry anybody thinking we could be potential robbers, not until a guy forcefully opened d cars front door and entered then me I jumped and followed because I cannot come and carry last then the Hiace driver zoomed off...

Till I got to my destination. It was just 2 of us that escaped from that scene. The other people are stil there, I dont know there whereabout now.... I just want to Thank God for spearing my live to see the fulness of 2013 and many more years... E jo e ba mi dupe lo woh OLUWAH(Pls help me thank God Nairalanders)!!!!!!!

AN please really dont know how I could still help the guys there. Dont know if they have seen an helper or not because this happened today around 5:30pm..

This are one of the reasons why atheists consider religion sick, always praising God for one help or the other whenever you're spared from an horrible incident or have a job promotion, etc....from your account, if that God could allow the sparing of your life judging from your account and praising, then why couldn't he have just strike the armed robbers or at least prevented them from not shooting anyone at all?

Ode blacks fools raving about the history of those who destroyed your ancestors, I wonder why aren't the two of you busy researching on the discovery of African contribution to world's knowledge in science and tech.

Lost fooools!

[quote author=Dudu_Negro].....to the point of the post, it should be expected that Christians will react in outrage that the image of Jesus was tarnished by such a blasphemous revelation. The revelation was made by followers of Jesus. Who should this outrage be directed against?

Muslims do not riot and go wild when one of their own blaspheme against Mohammed. Its only when its done by non-muslims that they react this way.

In your family if your sister or brother insults your parent it is less offensive than when an neighbor insults your parents.......and you show your displeasure to the neighbor, right? This behavior is valid for all of mankind.

America may not go on rampage for Jesus but they surw went wild when France refused to support Bush in attacking Iraq. They brought out french wine and wasted them on streets and renamed french fries to freedom fries.

So what im saying is this behavioral pattern of becoming enraged when something we hold dear in our hearts is violated is a human trait, it is human nature to do so. What is sacred to you may not be sacred to me......what is patriotism ti me may not be a symbil if patriotism to you. We live and die by ideologies......it is human nature.[/quote]You are WRONG about your theory. Traditional Tribal Pagans don't fall into the category you placed every human. An onishango or an ologun or an Ayilala/Shopona priest/priestess wouldn't defend their deity you Nigerian religionists call false/idol gods. Anyone is free to free to blaspheme on any of the ancient Yoruba deities, infact since they don't even know WTF is blasphemy, anyone is free to go ahead and violate them by deficate or urinate on their 'ojubo' and trust me, no devotee or priest would strike or kill anyone. What will happen is best left to the imaginations of all you black shameless suuuckers who don't believe in our own thing, yes all you m'fuckers who gets hard-on deliberating about Abrahamic faiths whose so called Holy Books is been used to swear in oath by your so called 'leaders' who keep raiping the amalgamation called Giant of Africa. Giant my arss!

And to all you m'fuckn christians who keep dropping comments on this forum like 'no xtian wuld kill a musyin if scissors was depicted as gay'

May I remind you that tolerance in Christianity can be extensively credited to years and years of secular reasoning pushed by free-thinkers, atheists and non-delusional humans in their respective society. Billions of innocent people were killed all over Europe through certain part in the middle east for they thoughts they were defending God of the Jews aka Jeovah aka Y Yawheh aka Hell Shall Die, they killed innocent women in britain for 500years (Burn the heretic witch, who communes with Shaitan), they even cite passage in their Folly BileBull to condemn the red-Indian natives as heathens and pagans just so they can annihilate their sorry 'sitting bear' arses, furthermore to quote another passage to justify the enslavement and hauling of blax in Africa to work the lands of the New World aka America...a land originally owned by pagans.

So any of you crisstians should desist from seeming to feel like your effed religion is better as if it hasn't done it own share of blood-lettings in the distant past.

Don't get it twisted, I support no semitic RELIGION.

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]it is not just that. Nairaland MODs are also higly discriminatory against other religions. Upto now, not even "ONE" thread on Traditional Religion has made it to the front page. if it ever has, it is in the form of giving us bad names for other Nairalanders to abuse us such as those on "ritual killings" or "bullet-proof" vests by private individuals. our deep-seated knowledge and religious values are never expounded. This site is so biased. and also its MODs.

for example there are right now 2 threads on the frontpage, to appease both, muslims & christians:

for xtians https://www.nairaland.com/1041504/cossy-orjiakor-im-born-again
for muslims https://www.nairaland.com/449276/directory-good-islamic-schools-nigeria[/quote]I strongly think we ought to meet together to decide on the possibility of creating our own website/forum strictly based on atheism as opposed to the subject of supernatural expunging anything that has to do with Abrahamic religions except when debunked in order to make projective points from either side. I have an idea of how it may go, what do you think?

MacDaddy01: I am not computer or IT guy and so I cant say much on some of your ideas.


The atheist/pagan section might be a good idea but I think we must discuss this among the atheists/unbelievers because Seun will more likely be moved if we agree on this in unison

Where are we to discuss it, also I am down with your seminar thing.

A friend of mine who's a java specialist once thought 'well....I don't think nairaland should have be where it is today' and man I have given it some serious thought ever since.

Below are my suggestions of how nairaland may be improved.

1. Creation of a chat rooms

This won't be privileged to everyone except for those who have contributed immensely to NL in terms of number of serious topics posted with thes highest number of pages generated, or based on some other criteria to be decided by Seun and the mods in order manage server time allocation)

2. A download portal
Here registered members can upload or download .pdf, .apps, limit size restriction of 5mb or whatever.

3. Creation of Atheist and Pagan sub-forums
An atheist room is direly needed so that fellow atheists can get to share and compare their views and opinion without needing to post under the Religious section, I think it will be suitable under the Education section without needing to create topics under the religious forum, this may resolve the perpetual clash between Nairaland atheists and religionists who usually feel offended by atheistic posts in their religious section and ofcourse the creation of a Pagan room placed either under the religion or culture section moderated by either Pagan9JA. I will recommend MacDaddy01 aka logicboy to moderate the atheist section.

4. Research section in the science and tech
Here, members working on personal research or school project/thesis can get to compare and rub minds on any work/experiment in progress.

5. User Computer/Phone profile
This is just for aesthetic purpose, just to enhance the look and appeal of Nairaland. I'm sure Seun would understand what I mean by this. A brief specs of a user computer/phone detail would be displayed either on top or below the signature line. Something like:
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Opera 12, Pentium Core2Quad E4400, 32GB Ram, Windows XP Pro SP3, Garri on the table,

This is just my 2 cents, don't attack mine as you are free to contribute your suggestions.

Regards

manmustwac: TRUE! We mods do have the option of recommending a topic from our individual sections for the homepage but that's no guarantee that it would make it there. I have noticed that the only topics that make it to the homepage from this section are topics like T B Joshua, Pastor Adeboye, Pastor Chris Okotie, Helen Ukpabio etc. Topics like Frosbels topic about the Holy Trinity that am sure would've clocked at least 10 pages. But then i see Islamic threads making the homepage that struggle to even get 3 pages when we on the religion section outnumber them by at least 2 to 1 & we hardly get a topic on the homepage. Well am glad u raised the issue MacDaddy01 am sure if u were a muslim & making threads on Islam you'd have had at least half a dozen topics on the homepage by now

I think it is highly unfair and unjust of those running Nairaland from SEUN to the sectional moderators to discriminate on what type of religious topics would look candy on the front page. They pick topics relating to ONLY Christianity and Islam while deliberating neglecting atheist and trado-paganic topics, I might have agreed with the other poster who said had it been MacDaddy's or Pagan9ja's topics were eye-catchy or having a well phrased title they might have been on the front page but then again I have seen several awkward titled Christian and Islamic topics making the front page...I am inclined to think, they runners of NL just don't want to rock the boat. Period!.

azpekuliar: CLASSIC!!!

As classic as your brain can be. Mumu

As far as am concerned, this story was concocted to minimise and or crush the believe in any form of African science and tech otherwise known as juju/ishegun. Oyinbo man science say anything that goes up must fall down abi? Yoruba/African juju say I'm own science start for wen their own stop, so with the appropriate method object thrown up was made to suspend in thin air. Ogbeni no let dem make u think say juju no real o. Me I be atheist o! But I believe in the efficacy of well made juju except for the evil ones suxh as human ritual blood money and evil crap like that...after all they have head-hunting and similar ones in other cultures of the world. The Japanese have harakiri and the Indiana thugee.

To all you equating whoever gave that individual that cream charm with the prestigious title of a 'Babalawo' - I say shame on you all for not knowing about your respective traditional black science muchles of the Yorubas'. Did the reporter of the dubious news used the word 'babalawo'? Most of you, just like in real life lack certain basic knowledge in Yoruba traditional science and terms...that's why I'm not surprise when fools use the title 'Babalawo' instead of 'Onishegun'. An seasoned Onishegun have achieved far more than what any modern science and tech would attain in 50years to come talkless of the unlimited capability of a Babalawo. An onishegun is quite similar to the concept of who a sorcerer is. A wizard is basically a wise sage/old man. A babalawo on the other hand has no equivalent in english term. I will explain who a Babalawo is in detail in my upcoming thread called Yoruba Advanced Sciences...watch out!...African science is the basis of all modern science and tech. Ancient Yoruba Scientists* back then have and till now are still visiting Oshupa (moon) and other Aiyes (planets/world) before Neil Armstrong, just like they taught us Colombus discovered America leaving out the fact the he met blacks returning from the continent he was about to discover, waving towards him and his crew. You all don't know a thing about juju other than what your pastors and those culture-bastardizing Yoruba and Igbo-dominated english movies interpretes to your lazy minds. For your information, all types of juju is real including 'bullet proof' ones. The Yorubas Scientist aka Babalawo have a name for each and every one of its versions, but its a secret not meant for everyone. Like pagan9ja said, whoever sold/gave the father who killed his son that 'cream-charm' just wanted to experiment with some sort of pseudo-juju experiment who somehow succeeded in convincing the fool of a man to believe the charm works so much be had to guinea pigged his own son, but still doesn't give you all the effrontery to condemn any African Science otherwise known as Juju/ishegun but eager to swallow both the possibility and credibility of miracle performing characters of the Bible and pastors. Make any of una pastors come stand make small boy use confirm oruka knack am whether Jesus the fiction go shield am from the discombobulating effect of the oruka-aluwo.

@Topic

An excellent write-up.

But I think it's a bit similar to the phenomenon 'Stockholm Syndrome'. Black religionists would rather defend their white/arab man's religions/interest than that of their ancestors'.

Ishilove: O yes please!

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SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbor.

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.

NAZISM/DICTATORSHIP
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.

TOTALITARIANISM
You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.

BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away.

CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.

ANARCHISM
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to kill you and take the cows.

SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.

A GREEK CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You borrow lots of euros to build barns, milking sheds, hay stores, feed sheds, dairies, cold stores, abattoir, cheese unit and packing sheds.
You still only have two cows.

A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
You then create a clever cow cartoon image called a Cowkimona and market it worldwide.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.

AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none. No one believes you, so they invade your country and bomb the shit out of you.
You still have no cows, but at least you are now a Democracy.

AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.

A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive.

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND (VENTURE) CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States , leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull.

Logicbwoy: GhostofSpata is a pagan.

I am not that kind of pagan you've been fed to think.

Ishilove: Nice

TNX!

Would you like an avatar of you?

SMH

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Logicbwoy: How did you reach that conclusion from my argument? Just because your not anti- something doesnt mean that you're pro something.

Atheism = god doesnt exist.

Atheism = supernatural doesn't exist

Logicbwoy: Remove china from that list. Communism is a state religion

How is communism a state religion. Isn't it a political ideology.

[quote author=Mr_Anony]Funny thing is that I also have not seen anywhere in geography and human history where the absence of religion has fostered peace, harmony, high morality and virtue

Care to show me?[/quote]China, Japan, Sweden, Estonia etc

ijawkid: u be yeye boy...
i blame the catholic church for your ignorance.....lol

ur present day government are murderers for executing criminals when they themselves are criminals...
do u criticize ur govt when they execute criminals??u wanna question God for cleansing badness...

oboy na you and God go settle d issue...u'v become so hard hearted and no turning back....


but i'll tell u this,its not gonna be fun then....
abuse God ,make fun of Him it wont change facts.....

Which of the following options do these criminals in government swear their oath by before assuming their respective offices?

A. The Holy Bible & The Holy Quran
B. Ayilala, Shango, Ogun, Shokpona, Amadioha
C. Book of the Dead
D. The Grimoire

Logicbwoy: God is the opium of the people.

Different people, different hallucinations;


-an invisible superman
-a being of true perfection
-an omnipotent force.


Keep hallucinating, theists!

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[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]ok that is good. but i dont see anything wrong with the old ATR to be honest. ofcourse, ATR has good scope for expanding religious sciences just like modern-day Hinduism and Buddhism do, like the compiling of new treatises, interpretations, etc. .[/quote]I have modified my post....I meant TTP not TTR i.e. Traditional Tribal Paganism