NEW YORK
New York Daily News
By Oren Yaniv / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
They convicted him because of the facts, not because of his religion.
A juror in the sexual abuse case pitting a teen accuser against Hasidic leader Nechemya Weberman said he broke the panel’s silence to refute the notion the jury returned a guity verdict out of anti-Semitic bias.
“It wasn’t religion, it wasn’t their background, it wasn’t revenge,” said the 42-year-old man, who asked not to be identified. “It was a young girl and an old man alone in a room.”
The juror offered the first public account of the jury’s thinking during deliberations in the high-profile trial, which ended Dec. 10 with a guilty verdict to all 59 counts.
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