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to try to help free a convicted pedophile from the Hasidic community, critics say — and things got so heated about it at the State of the State address that he and a foe had to be separated. Activists opposing the upcoming resentencing of disgraced former prominent Hasidic school mental-health counselor Nechemya Weberman said they fear that the DA will ask for a new sentence of time served, effectively freeing the convicted sicko.
Nechemya Weberman , a former counselor at a Brooklyn yeshiva, was originally sentenced to 103 years in prison for repeatedly sexually abusing a 12-year-old girlHasidic victim-advocates claimed that Gonzalez is clearly showing his hand about what he intends to do by posing for pictures with Weberman supporters and icing out the victim so harshly that she was forced to hire her own advocate lawyer.Barack Obama issues rare political statement condemning DHS over Alex Pretti shootingThat triple-digit sentence was later knocked down by state statute to 50 years, and he is now up for resentencing. “It’s exceedingly rare for a victim to feel so unheard by the prosecution,” said lawyer Sarena Townsend, who worked as a prosecutor in Brooklyn for a decade — including alongside many of the ADAs who put Weberman behind bars in 2013. A source claimed that a meeting between the DA’s office and Deutsch over the resentencing ended with her team “walking out furious at him.”Lawyer Sarena Townsend, who worked as a prosecutor in Brooklyn for a decade, said the DA’s handling of the case has been very odd at times.“In most cases, the victim hopefully feels comforted by the prosecutor to do the right thing,” Townsend said. “It is definitely rare to hire an attorney for this purpose.” Victims’ advocate Asher Lovy — director of the Orthodox Jewish victims group Za’akah — said that when he saw Gonzalez after this year’s State of the State event in Albany, he did not hesitate to let his frustration be known. “Basically, no one has been able to get a hold of ,” Lovy said of himself and other victims groups furious about the DA’s possible decision to not oppose Weberman’s resentencing.“I went over to him, and I said to him: ‘Eric, I’m surprised to see you here. I thought you’d be working overtime to get Weberman out of prison,’ ” Lovy recalled.Lovy said Gonzalez repeatedly claimed he wasn’t trying to get Weberman out.While the DA’s office would not confirm the confrontation — nor Gonzalez’s reputed decision to push for time served for the convict — it did claim to both support Deutsch and a resentencing for Weberman at the same time, stating that the sex criminal’s original 103-year sentence was “an extreme outlier” and “motivated by politics. “We considered these facts and agreed to allow the Court to hear from all parties and make a fair determination that spares the defendant from dying in prison while serving this clearly excessive sentence,” said DA spokesman Oren Yaniv.Gonzalez has repeatedly ignored calls to appear with Jewish victims groups, activists said, instead spending time with major Hasidic community power brokers, including at , they noted that Weberman published a letter in a Hasidic paper last month comparing himself “to Jacob the Patriarch, and how his release will be analogous to Jacob, coming home to a beautiful family and great wealth.” “To give him this massive benefit that basically nobody else gets — for somebody who’s so abhorrent and unapologetic and unremorseful and eager to return to his former glory — it’s sickening,” Townsend said.tweeting surreptitious photos of the victim in the courtroom,Alex Pretti's Sig handgun has history of accidentally firing — possible clue to why Border agent shot himKirsten FlemingJoJo Siwa teases baby plans with boyfriend Chris HughesNechemya Weberman , a former counselor at a Brooklyn yeshiva, was originally sentenced to 103 years in prison for repeatedly sexually abusing a 12-year-old girlLawyer Sarena Townsend, who worked as a prosecutor in Brooklyn for a decade, said the DA's handling of the case has been very odd at times.
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