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	Wife: I Feared "Molest" Rabbi By Kati Cornell New York Post March 6, 2009 http://www.nypost.com/seven/03062009/news/regionalnews/brooklyn/wife__i_feared_molest_rabbi_158248.htm A Hasidic rabbi's ex-wife testified yesterday she knew he had been sexually abusing their daughter for years but was too afraid to stop it. Faige Weingarten said her daughter, now 27, came to her at age 9 looking "very shocked" and "very lost" and told her she'd been molested by her father. "She told me her father was touching her in very unusual places. She showed me with her hand, a direction downward," Weingarten said in testimony against her ex-husband, Israel Weingarten, 59, yesterday at his sex-abuse trial in Brooklyn federal court. "I wanted to do something for her, [but] I was very afraid of my ex-husband," said Mrs. Weingarten, a mother of eight who claims he beat her numerous times. Seven years passed before a blatant act forced her to confront her husband. She said she awoke to sounds of crying in another bedroom. "I came in and I saw my ex-husband with [my daughter] in one bed. I got a terrible shock," Mrs. Weingarten said.
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