The brave Orthodox Jewish teen whose testimony helped
convict the prominent Brooklyn counselor who had sexually abused her was driven
out of her own synagogue on Rosh Hashana last week.
The married, 18-year-old victim was in the Williamsburg
synagogue where her family has prayed for the past decade when a man yelled,
“Moser, out of the shul!” the woman’s husband told The Post on Sunday.
The word “moser” refers to a Jew who informs on another Jew
to secular authorities.
“They stopped the praying until she left,” said her husband,
Boorey Deutsch, 26. “Some woman tried telling my wife to stay there and not
leave.
She shouldn’t care what they say. But my wife ended up leaving.”
“She felt horrible and mistreated. They treat survivors as
if they are the abusers,” Deutsch fumed to The Post.
Deutsch and his wife have suffered harassment ever since she
first accused Nechemya Weberman, 54, of sexually abusing her after she was sent
to him for counseling as a 12-year-old.
“Several weeks ago, someone threw eggs at Boorey’s store,” a
law-enforcement source said.
The gutsy victim testified at Weberman’s trial that she was
afraid to report the abuse because he was “supposedly a god in Williamsburg”
and nobody would believe her.
“Satmar would have kicked me out, and if Satmar kicks you
out, nobody accepts you,” she said during the trial last year.
The pressure for her to drop the case against Weberman was
at times overwhelming.
Weberman — who is married with 10 children — is currently
serving his 50-year sentence at the maximum-security Shawangunk Correctional
Facility in upstate Wallkill.
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