NEW YORK
WABC
N.J. Burkett
NEW YORK (WABC) — Closing arguments were made Thursday in the trial of a well-known ultra orthodox member of the Jewish community in Brooklyn, accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl he was supposedly counseling.
The jury could get the case Friday.
Nechemya Weberman left the courthouse with his wife and one of his 10 children on what could be his last night of freedom.
His attorneys insist that Weberman is being framed by a young girl who despises ultra-orthodox Judaism.
“She came to hate her community and she hated her religion,” Defense attorney Stacey Richman told the jury, “This is her opportunity to say, ‘I hate this.'”
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