An unlicensed counselor and respected member of a Jewish community in Brooklyn was sentenced to 103 years in prison on Tuesday for the sexual abuse of a girl who came to him with questions about her religion.

Nechemya Weberman, 54, a member of Williamsburg's ultra-Orthodox Satmar Jewish community, was convicted in December of 59 counts, including sustained sexual abuse of a child, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse, according to CBS. He was found guilty of repeatedly sexually abusing a young woman beginning from the time she was 12.

The highest charge Weberman received on Tuesday carried a sentence of 25 years but he got consecutive terms for some of the other charges and now Weberman will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.

"The message should go out to all victims of sexual abuse that your cries will be heard and justice will be done," Justice John G. Ingram of State Supreme Court said before announcing the sentence, He also praised the victim's "courage and bravery in coming forward."

The accuser, whose is now 18, called Weberman a "monstrous predator" and at one point during the trail the teen addressed her abuser directly, asking him how he was "able to torture for all those years, violating people like they were toys."

"I clearly remember how I would look in the mirror. I saw a girl who didn't want to live in her own skin, a girl whose innocence was shattered, a girl who couldn't sleep at night because of the gruesome invasion that had been done to her body," the accuser told the court.

Weberman declined to comment on his sentencing and only said "no thank you" when asked if he wished to say anything.

"Nechemya Weberman is innocent of these charges," said defense attorney George Farkas. "We believe that an innocent man was convicted and that an innocent man has been sentenced. We believe that the jury got a highly sanitized version of what happened."

Both Weber and the victim are part of the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn, which abides by strict rules governing clothing, social customs and interaction between members of the community and outsiders.

The teen, who is now married, said her and her family were harassed and ostracized for reporting to the police what Weberman had done. CBS noted that during the trial, men were arrested on charges that they tried to bribe the girl and her husband to drop the case.