Brooklyn-ite and Satmar Hasidic Jew Nechemya Weberman was sentenced to 103 years in prison today, for sexually abusing a girl who came to him for therapy. 

But ask any of his neighbors about the sentence and you’re unlikely to hear anyone voice criticism of Weberman.

I asked dozens of people on the streets of Williamsburg how they felt, and the vast majority declined to speak. Was it the Arctic cold? That probably played a part.

But most of them seemed more repelled by the subject matter. As one Hasidic source told me, over the phone: the issue is so toxic in the community that nobody wants to go public, whether they support Weberman or think he’s guilty. There’s also a sense, he said, that the media implicated not just the accuser, but the entire community.

The few people who did grant me interviews voiced support for Weberman, and suggested his accuser — who’s now 18 — was a badly-behaved girl who couldn’t be trusted.

One man, a 48-year-old factory manager named Reuven (no one gave me their last name either), said Weberman was the victim of a “revenge” plot.

Reuven said “everybody is hoping” the revenge argument would come out in the open during the appeals process.

Another man, Charlie, argued that the whole case was politically motivated — a way for Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes to prove his tough-on-crime credentials. Weberman, in Charlie’s view, was simply a scapegoat.

But the judge ruled in favor of the accuser, who said she had been abused from age 12 to 15.

One Satmar resident, a woman named Rifki who runs a glove store, told me she was Weberman’s niece. She thinks he’ll ultimately be cleared.

“One nice day, he will show us that’s he going to come out of the jail and everybody’s going to see that he wasn’t guilty,” said Rifki. “He was clean of anything that was put onto him.”