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Abraham Rubin leaves court after getting a plea deal for bribery in August.Photo: Gregory Mango
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man who tried to bribe the teen victim that bravely testified against convicted child molester Nechemya Weberman was sentenced to jail time Friday morning.
Abraham Rubin, 50, who offered the young sex abuse victim and her then-boyfriend $500,000 to leave the country so the case against Weberman would be dropped, showed no emotion as he was sentenced to four months jail time at Brooklyn Supreme Court.
In addition to the jail term, Rubin was given five years probation.
The courtroom was packed with at least 30 members of the Satmar community, many of whom wept as Rubin read a statement prior to the sentencing.
“On or about one and a half years ago, I did something very terrible … I am deeply sorry by what I did,” Rubin read.
“I am an honest man. Please think of my wife, my kids, my wonderful grandchildren,” he begged Judge Danny Chun.
Rubin, of Williamsburg, pleaded guilty last August to a felony of bribing a witness and other related charges.
Defense attorney John Esposito declined comment following the sentencing.
Weberman, 55, was convicted in 2012 on all 59 counts of child sex abuse and is currently serving a 103-year sentence. The non-licensed counselor repeatedly sexually abused the now-19-year-old victim from when she was 12.
Previously, three Orthodox Jewish brothers pleaded guilty to coercion on a no-jail deal for attempting to intimidate the victim’s now-husband into dropping the case against Weberman.
Only a Few Dozen Show Up for Sharon Burial Organizers expected thousands to arrive but the buses have remained empty.
ReplyDeleteTwo hours before Ariel Sharon was scheduled to be buried, the large crowd expected at the funeral ceremony had not materialized. Only a few dozen people had showed up at Havat Hashikmim – Sycamore Ranch – in the Negev, where the legendary general and former prime minister was to be laid to rest, reported Maariv-NRG.
The civilians who came to pay their last respects were far outnumbered by hundreds of police and ushers at Givat Hakalaniyot, where Sharon will be laid to rest next to his late wife, Lily.
Organizers even gave instructions to some of the people employed at the funeral to take part in the event as if they were regular members of the crowd, so as to honor the occasion with a more respectable showing.
The reasons for the surprisingly poor showing are not known, but two likely causes come to mind: one, Sharon has been in a vegetative state for eight long years, and his death does not have the same effect on people that it would have otherwise had.
The other possible reason is that Sharon’s greatest fans, the Israeli nationalists, were bitterly disappointed by his decision to uproot the communities of Gaza and northern Samaria in 2005. On the other hand, the people on the left wing who applauded him for this action never liked him, and the Disengagement did not make them like him.
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