NEW YORK
New York Post
By NATALIE O’NEILL, AARON FEIS and PEDRO OLIVEIRA JR.
Last Updated: 7:54 AM, December 1, 2012
What a bunch of shmucks.
Members of Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community lashed out yesterday at the gang of creeps who allegedly tried to intimidate a young sex-abuse accuser by snapping her picture in court as she testified against a powerful Hasidic leader.
“This was done to deteriorate the victim again, to make sure there is a mistrial,” fumed Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, who has been following the trial of Nechemya Weberman, the unlicensed counselor accused of abusing the teen starting when she was 12.
Three ultra-Orthodox Jews — Lemon Juice, 30, Joseph Fried, 23, and Yona Weisman, 23 — who were arrested Thursday, were arraigned late last night on criminal-contempt charges for allegedly snapping iPhone pictures of the now-17-year-old as she testified. They were released on $2,500 bail and declined to comment.
The charges against Abraham Zupnick, 23, who was also arrested Thursday, were dropped.
The men, all members of the insular Satmar sect of Williamburg’s Hasidic Jewish community, were nabbed after a picture of the girl surfaced on Twitter.
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