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Weiner Pleads for Leniency in Sexting Case, Says Actions ‘Crushed the Aspirations of My Wife’
Former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner asked for leniency Wednesday in sentencing for his exchange of sexually explicit online messages with a 15-year-old girl, regretting he helped torpedo his wife Huma Abedin's career.
In documents filed with a Manhattan federal court, Weiner's lawyers asked for probation mandating treatment and community service, portraying their client as an attention-driven "weak man" in a "self-destructive spiral" with a "sickness."
The New York Times reports:
The teenage girl first contacted Mr. Weiner on Jan. 23, 2016, and he "responded as a weak man, at the bottom of a self-destructive spiral, and with an addict’s self-serving delusion that the communications were all just internet fantasy — willfully ignoring that there was a young person at the other end of the connection, hundreds of miles away, who could be damaged by these exchanges through the ether," his lawyers wrote.
Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of 21 to 27 months for a charge that carries a maximum of 10 years in prison. Weiner will be sentenced Sept. 25.
Weiner, in his own five-page letter to the court, lamented he had "crushed the aspirations" of his estranged wife Huma Abedin, a top aide to 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
"My continued acting out over years crushed the aspirations of my wife and ruined our marriage," Weiner wrote. "I am so deeply sorry for the harm I have done to her, and I live with the sorrow that I will never be able to fix that."
Weiner Pleads for Leniency in Sexting Case, Says Actions 'Crushed the Aspirations of My Wife'
Former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner asked for leniency Wednesday in sentencing for his exchange of sexually explicit online messages with a 15-year-old girl, regretting he helped torpedo his wife Huma Abedin's career.
In documents filed with a Manhattan federal court, Weiner's lawyers asked for probation mandating treatment and community service, portraying their client as an attention-driven "weak man" in a "self-destructive spiral" with a "sickness."
The New York Times reports:
The teenage girl first contacted Mr. Weiner on Jan. 23, 2016, and he "responded as a weak man, at the bottom of a self-destructive spiral, and with an addict’s self-serving delusion that the communications were all just internet fantasy — willfully ignoring that there was a young person at the other end of the connection, hundreds of miles away, who could be damaged by these exchanges through the ether," his lawyers wrote.
Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of 21 to 27 months for a charge that carries a maximum of 10 years in prison. Weiner will be sentenced Sept. 25.
Weiner, in his own five-page letter to the court, lamented he had "crushed the aspirations" of his estranged wife Huma Abedin, a top aide to 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
"My continued acting out over years crushed the aspirations of my wife and ruined our marriage," Weiner wrote. "I am so deeply sorry for the harm I have done to her, and I live with the sorrow that I will never be able to fix that."
Weiner Pleads for Leniency in Sexting Case, Says Actions 'Crushed the Aspirations of My Wife'
