CLARIFICATION: Rav Hershel Schachter, rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS) of Yeshiva University, releases video stating that although his signature appears on a letter to NY Governor Kathy Hochul asking for clemency for Nechemya Weberman, a convicted child abuser, he retracted that signature because he was not told the full story, and says he should remain in prison.
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Please call him and tell him that he needs to do full teshuva by attending resentencing December 2nd and telling the judge that he retracts his support and thinks that Weberman should keep his 50 year sentence.
Unfortunately some are trusting a מחללת שבת over a frum yid.
WayWrong,
If she doesn’t keep Shabbos might it possibly have something to do with what monster Weberman was convicted of doing to her?
B”H
Chaf Aleph Kislev
Leaving this comment now even though story was from 3 weeks ago – Nov. 19 ’25. Rav Shachter is talking about multiple victims but Mr. Weberman was only accused and convicted of alleged crimes against one purported victim. The record of all the prior proceedings proves well beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Weberman is not guilty of any misconduct towards this individual, and that she was arguably coerced into making a false outcry against him in order to have a case dropped against her then-boyfriend which contained evidence which might have ruined her life. Mr. Weberman was singled out because he told her mother’s husband what she was doing with a non-underaged male and her step-father filmed it and brought to the police; Weberman told him not to video it, and after it was done unbeknownst to him, told the step-father not to bring it to the police, but the latter disregarded this. Weberman went the next day with the father to the DA’s office to try to get them to destroy the video and drop any charges against the boy but the DA’s office refused, because they wanted to incite a false complaint against Weberman in order to create a diversion in another well-known Chassid s-abuse case where that Yid’s family was putting up a lot of money to get their father out. Weighing her counseling records – which were not release until years later – with her trial testimony, clearly demonstrates she was lying about the whole case without a doubt. Now she was induced into this so her culpability is mitigated, but she should not advocated back then (nor presently) for him to get such a draconian sentence. This is such a major travesty and if only Rabbi Schacter would please understand that no other victims were charged to Mr. Weberman and even if the Rosh Yeshiva feels there might be truth to other victims, even the DA’s office only alleged one other minor and the rest involved alleged married women and the judge didn’t allow any testimony because the minor had a lengthy psychiatric history and Nechemy’a wasn’t charged with a crime with regards to any purported impropriety involving others. I respectfully suggest that a panel be established to take a hard look into this case and report it’s findings in a tniusdikker way that doesn’t just take one side’s story as factual as has been the case since the media took over this case in 2012 following the conviction of a notorious major college coach of a crime similar to the Weberman case which was a major scandal since the college’s heilege head coach and upper management knew about the abuse and allowed it to continue. So many tragedies have happened middeh-keneged-middeh in the aftermath of this case; please take a hard look at before being judgmental. Yeyasher koach/thank you.