As the Nechemya Weberman rape case is about to begin, the New
York Daily News has published a recap of the alleged witness intimidation and
other bad behavior by hasidim backing Weberman against his alleged
victim, who is now 18-years-old and who was allegedly raped
repeatedly by Weberman beginning when she was 12 and ending when she was 15.
Nechemya Weberman
As the Nechemya Weberman rape case is about to begin, the New York Daily News has published a recap of the alleged witness intimidation and other bad behavior by hasidim backing Weberman against his alleged victim, who is now 18-years-old and who was allegedly raped repeatedly by Weberman beginning when she was 12 and ending when she was 15.
Oren Yaniv, a Daily News reporter who rarely writes anything critical of Brooklyn's DA Charles Hynes no matter what Hynes has done, repeats Hynes' office's claim that Hynes' special haredi Kol Tzedek project has resulted in more than 100 haredi cases being brought forward – which is a complete and total lie and has been proved to be so by The Jewish Week, the New York Times, The Guardian, and other news outlets.
Hynes has at times claimed all those 100 cases (about half of which have nothing to do with Kol Tzedek) were convictions, something that is demonstrably false as well.
Oren Yaniv shouldn't be working in journalism. Hynes shouldn't be DA.
Unfortunately, in New York City and in Brooklyn, competence, honesty and fair play aren't in many job descriptions, and when they are, they're almost always ignored without penalty.