Weingarten's Defenders Debate the Facts! Copied & Pasted from the comments on Failedmessia.com

The following is from a Weingarten supporter who sounds like a lawyer:

Anyone who has carefully analyzed this case would realize that this Weingarten character is a devilish, arrogant, conniving, diabolical, scheming, sadomasochistic, psychopathic monster. He perpetrated his abuse in full view of the public over the course of many years. He contrived elaborate schemes as cover stories as to why he is doing what he is doing, and why his daughter would "lie" about him. Many years ago he already pre-recorded alibi tapes and set up elaborate dramatic incidents that should later serve as alibis for him. This case is suitable for a plot twisting Hollywood movie, a horror movie at that.

At the trial, where he arrogantly acted as his own lawyer, he claimed as a defense that the victim's motivation was to abandon her religion and that she was getting back at him for giving her a hard time about it. He further claimed that as a teenager she had sex with: a neighbor in Antwerp, her older brother and her mother!

If the Rabbis were smart they would let this case die from the headlines rather than to stir it up now. It will not be pretty for anyone if this hits the fan.
Although I have come to a conclusion about this monster’s guilt, there are still intriguing facts about this case which continue to perplex me. At the core of this case is a matrimonial controversy. So as they say, there is his version, her version and the truth.

1) Why did the family court in Rockland find him to be the ideal parent and award him sole custody of the kids during his divorce?

2) What is with those tapes of his ex-wife speaking in slobbering Yiddish with her sister regarding men she would like to sleep with, and with her daughter (the victim) about shaving her privates?

3) Why did the Feds conduct such an extensive 5 year investigation with extensive resources for crimes which were committed on other continents (mostly Europe), using an obscure law?

4) How was it possible for Weingarten to prevail at the Din Torah in Belgium which was conducted by pretty reasonable people there, even though the story was ongoing at the time?

5) Why do the rest of his children, to this day, swear their loyalties only to their father and still refuse to have anything to do with their mother or sister?

6) Why did he receive such a harsh sentence for a crime that by all accounts did not involve actual intercourse? Technically he got 30 years for transiting JFK Airport with his daughter.

Some additional trivia I find intriguing:

- Weingarten's older brother Leo left the fold decades ago, before it was the "in" thing to do. He has had a checkered past since then being implicated in financial misdeeds in Florida. He is one of the driving forces against his brother.

- The ex-wife who played the role of innocent victim all long ended up remarrying a Rosh yeshiva in Monsey who was one of her supporters. He sent her packing soon after the marriage and has now changed his mind about her.

- The victim has taken residence, together with her African-American boyfriend, in Florida, in close proximity to her uncle Leo.

- Not that it means much, but Weingarten happens to be a brilliant torah scholar by all accounts.

I have come to the conclusion that the entire cast of characters in this saga (Israel, his ex-wife, older brother Leo, Oldest son Yoni, Daughter (victim), supporting rabbis, detracting rabbis, etc..) are more complex than they seem and that there are various motives at play.

Though I find many aspects of this case intriguing and mysterious, there is no question in my mind that Weingarten is a hideous monster who got what's coming to him. - Just for the way he conducted the trial alone he deserves to rot in jail for ever.

Posted by: Forty Eighter | January 14, 2011 at 08:26 AM