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Former congressman Anthony Weiner admits “I was a very sick man for a very long time,” as he’s sentenced to 21 months in prison for sexting with teen

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header id&equals;"ra-headers">&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;"><strong>Hubris complete&excl; From congress to sex offender registry and prison for <&sol;strong><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;"><strong>Anthony &&num;8216&semi;T-Dog&&num;8217&semi; Weiner&comma; who was sentenced to 21 months in prison&comma; Monday for teen sexting <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;"><strong>Former congressman&comma; 53&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sat in his Manhattan apartment&comma; got online and asked a real 15-year-old girl &lbrack;to perform sexual acts&rsqb;” &&num;8211&semi; prosecutors<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;"><strong>Teen girl at center of Weiner sexting scandal appearing on television on Inside Edition on Sept&period; 8&comma; revealed exchange of sexually explicit messages&comma; videos with disgraced congressman <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;"><strong>For years sexting scandals beset Weiner as his political career derailed in May 2011&comma; after he tweeted a picture of himself in bulging underwear<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;"><strong>In 2013 he was forced to admit he’d been sexting with a woman named Sydney Leathers using the alias &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Carlos Danger” <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;"><strong>That incident crushed his political ambitions&comma; ultimately ending his marriage to estranged wife&comma; Clinton aide Huma Abedin<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;"><strong>The couple who share a son are finalizing their divo<&sol;strong>rce <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-260887" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;09&sol;anthony-weiner-is-seen-after-he-was-sentenced-to-21-months-in-prison-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Anthony Weiner is seen after he was sentenced to 21 months in prison 3" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"737" &sol;>Anthony Weiner is seen after he was sentenced to 21 months in prison in Manhattan&comma; Monday<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Anthony Weiner got 21 months of hard time&period; The disgraced pol&comma; crying and grabbing tissue after tissue&comma; was sentenced Monday by Judge Denise Cote for sending sick messages to a minor girl&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The fate of the disgraced ex-congressman was sealed after he admitted to convincing a high school student to undress and touch herself via Skype in 2016&period; The victim was 15-at the time&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;As Cote read the terms of his sentence&comma;  including three years of supervised release&comma; a &dollar;10&comma;000 fine and Nov&period; 6 surrender date&comma; Weiner bowed his head and sobbed&comma; holding a hand over his eyes&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was a very sick man for a very long time&comma;” Weiner said before sentencing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-261099" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;09&sol;anthony-weiner-sobbing-at-his-sentencing-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Anthony Weiner sobbing at his sentencing 1&period;jpg" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"500" &sol;>Sketch shows Weiner sobbing in court Monday after he was sent away for almost 2 years for sexting with minor<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was the adult&&num;8230&semi;if I had done the right thing I would not be standing before you today&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;He wore a navy suit and pale green tie – and still sported his wedding band&comma; though he is in the midst of a divorce from Huma Abedin&comma; a top aide to Hillary Clinton&period; Abedin did not appear in court&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Prosecutors said 53-year-old Weiner&comma; a former congressman from Brooklyn&comma; began a two-month sexting session with the North Carolina teen shortly after she messaged him on Twitter in January 2016&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-260883" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;09&sol;teen-involved-in-anthony-weiner-sexting-scandal&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Teen involved in Anthony Weiner sexting scandal" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"752" &sol;>The teen at the center of Weiner&&num;8217&semi;s current sexting debacle appeared on television for the first time on Inside Edition early in September&period; The former congressman exchanged sexually explicit messages with the minor who later sold her story to a British paper<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;This was a serious crime&comma; and it’s a serious crime that deserves serious punishment&comma;” Cote said&period; Weiner deserves 2 years for video sexting with minor&colon; prosecutors<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;There&&num;8217&semi;s a uniform opinion by those who have examined him that he is an addict&period; He has a disease that &lpar;includes&rpar; sexual compulsivity&period; Some call it a sex addiction&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Steps are being taken&&num;8230&semi;to limit his access to social media&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the judge added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"rtl">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"rt-gr">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"rt-h"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-260900" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;09&sol;anthony-weiner-5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Anthony Weiner 5" width&equals;"635" height&equals;"424" &sol;>Anthony Weiner accompanied by his attorneys faces the media outside Manhattan Federal Court after being sentenced to 21 months in prison&comma; Monday<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>The former outspoken and ambitious politician a one time mayoral candidate in New York sought probation&period; Ultimately the court did not heed the defense prayer as he was  sentenced to prison with hard labor following his felony sex crime conviction&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Weiner&&num;8217&semi;s lawyers have argued he is sick and needs therapy&comma; not incarceration&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I victimized a young person who deserved better&comma;” Weiner said in court&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am not asking that I be trusted&&num;8230&semi;I ask you for the opportunity on probation to keep my sworn oath&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Prosecutors had asked for two years behind bars&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The defendant sat in his Manhattan apartment&comma; got online and asked a real 15-year-old girl &lpar;to perform sexual acts&rpar;&comma;” prosecutor Amanda Kramer said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There are no circumstances which that is acceptable&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;A tearful Weiner pled guilty on May 19 to transmitting obscene material to a minor&comma; telling the judge&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have a sickness&comma; but I do not have an excuse&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;That same day&comma; Abedin filed for divorce&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This man is going to be the death of me&comma;” Abedin said&comma; according to Clinton&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-261136" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;09&sol;sydney-leathers-11&period;png" alt&equals;" Sydney Leathers 11&period;png" width&equals;"769" height&equals;"551" &sol;>Weiner career was ireversibly damaged in 2013 when he was snagged in an online sexting scandal with a woman named Sydney Leathers using&comma; the alias &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Carlos Danger”&period;  His sexting partner made the most of the infamy from that incident<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>In this lowest of chapters in Weiner&&num;8217&semi;s sexting obsession he entered online correspondence on the evening of Jan&period; 23&comma; 2016&comma; with a high school student who messaged him on Twitter&period; He hit her with a flurry of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;provocative” responses even after he knew she was a teen still in high school&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Court documents showed that Weiner took part in three video chat sessions via Skype during which the girl &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;made clear that she was not just a minor&comma; in fact&comma; only &ZeroWidthSpace;&ZeroWidthSpace;15 years old&comma;” prosecutors said&period; The habitual sexter was undeterred&comma; instead &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;as January turned to February&comma; their intermittent exchanges grew more lascivious&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Operating under the alias &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;T-Dog” Weiner&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;During the latter two Skype sessions&comma; on February 18 and 23&comma; 2016&comma; and in a Shapchat communication on March 9&comma; used graphic and obscene language to ask the minor Victim to display her naked body and touch herself&comma; which she did&comma;” prosecutors said the trial&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Weiner also sent the girl &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;obscene material” on self-destructing messaging apps like Kik and Confide&comma; including adult porn and a message &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;describing what he would do to her&comma; if she were 18&comma;” according to court filings&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Eight months later&comma; the wheels fell off for the incorrigible sexting fiend when the girl&&num;8217&semi;s story appeared in  Daily Mail&period; After his indictment&comma; a tearful Weiner pled guilty to one count of sending obscene material to a minor&comma; in May&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Huma Abedin filed for divorce on the same day he entered his guilty plea&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Abedin and Weiner have a 5-year-old son&comma; and she kept faith with him after the first incident came to light in 2011&period; With the disclosure of more unbecoming selfies and texts sent to online flames&comma; Weiner&&num;8217&semi;s political career ended when he resigned from Congress&comma; finally his marriage ended as well&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Currently the couple are finalizing their divorce&comma; Weiner notably told the judge his son was the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;one perfect thing in my life&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was teaching him the wrong things&&num;8230&semi;finally I am teaching him the right lessons&comma; accepting responsibility&comma;” Weiner said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Weiner’s political implosion began in May 2011&comma; when he tweeted a picture of himself in bulging underwear&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><strong><span class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-261101" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;09&sol;huma-abedin-and-anthony-weiner-2&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner 2" &sol;>In the aftermath of his series of sexting scandals disgraced pol Anthony Weiner &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; and estranged wife Huma Abedin &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; are now finalizing their divorce<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>A 2013 run for mayor was to be his big shot at redemption — but then Weiner was forced to admit he’d been sexting with a woman named Sydney Leathers using the alias &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Carlos Danger&period;” The irrepressible sexter was again snagged in August of 2016 when he sent a photo of a bulge in his underwear&comma; with his son next to him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Seemingly reveling in behavior Federal prosecutors described as oscillating from creepy to criminal&comma; he sent explicit images to the North Carolina high schooler&period; Directing the girl he was aware was a minor child to engage in sexual conduct&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With full knowledge that he was communicating with a real 15-year-old girl&comma; the defendant asked her to engage in sexually explicit conduct via Skype and Snapchat&comma; where her body was on display&comma; and where she was asked to sexually perform for him&comma;” prosecutors wrote&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;His inexplicable refusal to dial back on his sext addiction&comma; has been variously seen as having played a key role in the outcome of the last presidential elections&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Federal investigators examining Weiner’s laptop discovered emails on the computer appearing to pertain to a separate investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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