TIME FOR PENAL ACTION
Sext sentence today
After ruining his career, humiliating his wife and lying to the people of New York, Anthony Weiner is finally going to get what’s coming to him — as the convicted sex perv is sentenced for his crimes Monday. The 53-year-old former Democratic congressman — who faces as many as 10 years in the slammer — is almost certain to get handed some hard prison time by a Manhattan federal judge for sexting with a 15-year-old girl from North Carolina via Skype in 2016. It’s just the latest, sickest and saddest chapter of Weiner’s public downfall, which started in 2011 when he resigned from Congress after sending dirty pics of his private parts to women and then trying to cover it up. The current chapter began on Jan. 23, 2016, when a high-school student from North Carolina messaged Weiner on Twitter, prompting a flurry of private responses from the former public servant, according to the feds. The student revealed that she was in high school, but that didn’t stop Weiner from asking her to undress and touch herself.
He progressed to sending her “obscene material,” including adult porn and a message “describing what he would do to her, if she were 18,” according to court filings.
The government has asked for two years in prison while Weiner is begging for probation on the grounds that his dalliance with the teenager was due to his sick obsession with sexting rather than an obsession with underage girls.
His shrinks appear to support the theory that he is not a pedophile, according to court papers.
Still, legal experts say that won’t matter when he is sentenced because he has failed to keep his promise to stop sexting with strangers despite serious consequences to his life. That makes him a danger to society.
“He is a repeat problem,” said a former judge in the court where he will be sentenced. “There is a need to send a message — to him as an individual, as well as general deterrence.”
Indeed, Weiner’s failure to reform has destroyed his political career and his marriage to his long-suffering wife, Huma Abedin, who filed for divorce in May. This may be why Weiner’s courtappointed shrink has given him an “average” chance of reoffending.