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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The defense and prosecutors offered their closing arguments Thursday in the sex abuse trial of prominent Brooklyn ultra Orthodox leader Nechemya Weberman.
Weberman, 54, smiled as he left the courthouse with his wife on Thursday, seeming upbeat. But it could be his last night as a free man, CBS 2′s Sean Hennessey reported.
The jury will soon decide if Weberman used his Brooklyn home office as the place where he sexually abused a young girl he was counseling.
But with no physical or forensic evidence, the panel must decide whether to believe the rabbinical counselor or a teen girl who testified that she was abused for three years.
“From the time she was 12, he began sexually abusing her,” prosecutors said during closing arguments. They also alleged Weberman “wanted his sexual needs satisfied and he made her comply.”
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