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| Ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner sentenced to 21 months in jail for sexting with minor | Ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner sentenced to 21 months in jail for sexting with minor |
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| 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. | 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 a probation rather than jail. | |
| On Monday, Weiner cried as his sentence was announced by US District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan, New York. |