'Whatever else Anthony has done, he loves. It is for that I write this letter,' she wrote. 'Anthony and I have a wonderful son,, who is years old and is the light of our life. 'As would any parent, if there has to be a negative impact on, I would like it to be as small as possible.'Ībedin said that despite Weiner's faults – including his repeated 'sexting' relationships that destroyed his political career and reputation – her estranged husband has always been a devoted father to their son. 'I hope the Court will take into consideration as it weighs all it has to in considering Anthony's sentence,' wrote Abedin in a letter to U.S. Incredibly, despite his infidelities, his estranged wife Huma Abedin is now asking the court to go easy on Weiner in order to reduce the impact on their five-year-old son, Joshua.Ībedin, who filed for divorce last May, told the federal court a light sentence would be in the best interests of the couple's young son Joshua. He added that he expects Weiner to get jail time, 'given the nature of the charges and the lack of any real mitigating factors here.' The strategy 'is fraught with peril since an attack on a victim can be read by the judge as undermining the defendant's claim that he has accepted full responsibility,' said Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor. He also spoke of his love for his son, who appeared in his sext Tip of the iceberg: Weiner admits in court documents to sending sexts to hundreds of women since 2009 - with this one being revealed. Some legal observers doubt the wisdom of the defense in questioning the girl's motivations. presidential election' and write a tell-all book. The memo also suggested Weiner himself was a victim of the scandal, saying the North Carolina high school student initiated contact with him because she 'hoped somehow to influence the U.S. 'While the government does not contend that Weiner engaged in inappropriate sexual exchanges with other minors or that he is a pedophile, his professed ambivalence toward the minor victim's age is belied by the defendant's own statements to the court-appointed evaluator during his evaluation,' they said. Prosecutors attacked some of Weiner's arguments for seeking leniency and noted his full awareness that what he was doing was a crime, citing his co-sponsorship in January 2007 of a bill to require sex offenders to register their email and instant message addresses with the National Sex Offender Registry. But Weiner's attorneys contend he is a changed man who has finally learned his lesson, calling his compulsive sexting a 'deep sickness' best treated without time behind bars.
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