Pervert Anthony Weiner sentenced to 21 months in jail for sexting with minor

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Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:13 UTC

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Former U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner arrives at U.S. Federal Court

Former New York Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner was sentenced to 21 months in prison after he pleaded guilty in May to sending obscene material to a minor. At the time he was married to Hillary Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin.

Weiner, 53, will be required to register as a sex offender, and must report to prison by November 6.

The judge said that after his 21-month sentence is served, Weiner must undergo internet monitoring and have no contact with his victim. He must also enroll in a sex-offender treatment program.

Speaking before the judge on Monday, Weiner called his crime "rock bottom," saying he was "a very sick man for a very long time."

Weiner faced up to a decade in prison after a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina revealed last year that she and Weiner exchanged explicit messages for months, and that at one point he asked her to film herself undressing.

Weiner's lawyers argued that the former congressman acted out of the "depths of an uncontrolled sickness" and was now being treated, and asked that he be sentenced to probation rather than jail.

On Monday, Weiner cried as his sentence was announced by US District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan, New York.

Weiner resigned as a congressman in 2011, after it was revealed that he had exchanged explicit messages with multiple adult women, while married to Abedin. Two years later, he dropped out of the New York mayoral race, when it emerged that he had continued sending lewd messages to other women.

The former congressman married Abedin in 2010 in a ceremony officiated by former President Bill Clinton. Abedin served as a top aide for Hillary Clinton through her time as US secretary of state and later through Clinton's 2016 presidential run.

"What I want to say is I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him, and as I have said from the beginning, we are moving forward," Abedin said in 2013 after the series of sexting scandals.

Comment: Things didn't quite turn out that way:

Abedin, 41, previously wrote to the court that their 5-year-old son should not suffer due to Weiner's perversion.

"This is not a letter I ever imagined I would write, but, with Anthony, I have repeatedly found myself in circumstances I never imagined," Abedin wrote.

"I am devastated by Anthony's actions, and I understand he must face their consequences."

Abedin did not attend the proceeding in May when Weiner pleaded guilty to the sick sexts with the teen girl.

That same day, Abedin filed for divorce.

They most recently were seen in public together during a brief divorce hearing, where both parties are required to be present. They chatted amicably and left the courthouse together.

Abedin was nowhere to be seen during Weiner's sentencing.

However, two years later she announced she was leaving him, after the New York Post published a story about more explicit texts the politician sent that year, with one photo showing Weiner in his boxer briefs while in bed with his toddler son by his side.

A year later, the FBI and New York Police Department launched an investigation into Weiner after a 15-year-old girl told the Daily Mail the former politician had sent her lewd messages.

The investigation into Weiner's exchanges with a North Carolina high school student led to the discovery of Abedin's emails with Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state, on Weiner's laptop. This prompted the former head of the FBI, James Comey, to announce that the agency was reopening its investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server.

Clinton later said Comey's announcement in the final days of the 2016 presidential race contributed to her loss to Donald Trump.

Comment: Weiner deserves far worse than just 21 months in jail. As Matt Agorist wrote,

In spite of the sickening details, laid out in the prosecutor memorandum above, Anthony Weiner pled guilty to a single charge of transferring obscene material to a minor after turning himself in to the FBI.

As more and more high-level politicians and elite get busted for their sick crimes against children, those who ridiculed and shouted down those who investigated pizzagate as some crazed conspiracy theory kooks begin to show their true colors. While pizzagate may not have happened in that pizza parlor, the idea of the ruling elite engaging in unspeakable crimes against children is a very real problem and certainly no laughing matter

Update (Sept. 26): The teen on the receiving end of Weiner's mesages has revealed details of the encounter:

Weiner responded within "minutes" to the 15-year-old girl's introductory private message via Twitter in January 2016, she said in an interview with "Inside Edition" set to air on Monday.

The North Carolina high school student, revealing her face for the first time, said things moved quickly from sedate to seductive with the erstwhile Carlos Danger.

"I just sent him a nice message: 'Hello, I'm a huge fan,'" she recalled. Weiner almost immediately started in with the online sexual advances that destroyed his political career and his marriage. "I knew that it was going downhill very fast," she told the syndicated program. "He called me attractive."

The teen said she was initially intrigued by the close relationship between Weiner's estranged wife Huma Abedin and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton. "I knew that Hillary Clinton would be running for President in the year 2016," the teen said. "I wanted to see if Anthony was still up to the same antics." And Weiner certainly was up to his old tricks.

According to his victim, the failed mayoral candidate would ask her to undress for him via Skype. Weiner would also send the teen photos of himself bare-chested, she said. One message from the sext-obsessed former Congressman, then using the handle "T Dog," included a shirtless photo in which he was accompanied by his young son. The teen told Inside Edition she found it "particularly upsetting." She says, "I was disgusted. That was part of the reason I came forward."