Maybe we should ask the incredible women of Satmar who perform tremendous acts of Chesed in Hospitals every day what they think of Weberman, his locks, his trips, his “charitable organization”, and most importantly about his interactions with this young woman and the other(s) who have spoken up.
Of course, anyone asking them would need to guarantee their anonymity, because the vengeful pushback by the establishment(s) in their communities would certainly scare them off of going on the record.
Many of these holy women of Satmar have encountered female victims of all kinds of situations in the process of doing their incredible acts of kindness. I’d likely trust their judgement and their experience before I’d trust the deniers here. I wonder indeed what they would say if they could do so without fear of repercussions.
Yes I think Weberman did what he is accused of. Do I think 103 years is excessive? Probably, Yes, it is. I think it is about 3 times longer than it should have been.
SInce we don’t have a sanhedrin, we don’t operate under halachic courts on criminal matters at the moment, and we are bound by dina demalchsa dina as the USA is not an arbitrary and cruel government, Indeed the case was adjudicated as any other would be, testimony was given, evidence (as determined by the statute and by the judge, not by you or me) was given, and a verdict was returned. It isn’t an injustice simply because you disagree with it.
And just so no one makes the usual “you hate satmar” comments, I have described my tremendous respect for satmar chesed above; and I note that today an MO teacher in NJ pleaded guilty to similar type of crimes, and faces life in prison. The case was built in the normal way, as the weberman one was, and the guilty party will pay for his crime.