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16-Year-Old Confesses to Murder of ABC Newsman George Weber
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 7:36 am
There's just no good way to spin the story police are telling about the murder of ABC Radio newsman George Weber. The New York Daily News is reporting today that the long-time journalist and anchorman was killed during a "drugged-up date" with a 16-year-old male Weber met via Craig's List. The teen has reportedly confessed to the crime.
Police arrested the teen, whom the Daily News described as "emotionally disturbed," early Wednesday. From the paper:
[The teen] admitted to cops that he had answered an ad Weber placed on the Internet looking for a partner in rough sex, police and law enforcements sources said.
"He saw the victim's ad looking for violent sex and said "I can smother somebody for $60" but it got out of hand," a source said...
Cops tracked the suspect via Weber's Internet activity and cell phone records.
The attack on Weber was so vicious that his blood sprayed the walls of his Brooklyn apartment. He did try to fight his attacker; as a result, the teen's blood was also found in the residence.
The story will be hard to "spin" because media types tend to want to give their own the benefit of the doubt in these situations. It's natural, if you think about it. And while some will judge Weber for being gay or seeking sex online - the first type of judgment is prejudice, the second would have normally been Weber's business and no one else's - he might be judged more harshly for the age of the person whom he met for what was apparently intended to be a sadomasochistic assignation.
According to at least one source, had Weber's tryst proceeded as he apparently intended, he could have conceivably been guilty of at least three 3rd-degree sex offenses, under the laws of the State of New York.
It's a lose-lose story. George Weber's life was lost in the most horrific way imaginable. A troubled teen's life has essentially ended, since he may spend the rest of it in prison. And for those who worked with or just listened to Weber on the radio, a difficult reckoning with what was most likely a secret life that the otherwise respectable newsman never intended to come to light.
Tags: ABC Radio, apartment, Brooklyn, Craig's List, George Weber, GeorgeWeberthenewsguy.blogspot.com, murdered, S&M, stabbed, teenager, WABC
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