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Sicko LI woman who ‘got off’ to ‘screams of babies’ gets 7 years for sharing tot-rape porn
NY Post ^ | 02/21/2026 | Brandon Cruz and Natalie O'Neill

Posted on 02/21/2026 6:02:39 AM PST by DFG

A deranged female child therapist from Long Island was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday for sharing revolting baby-rape videos online, where she also pretended to be a father who raped his own children.

Renee “Rina” Hoberman, 36, was blasted by prosecutors as a vile “predator” who “got off to the helpless screams of babies” at the federal sentencing hearing in in Central Islip.

“[She’s a] danger to society.”

More than 100 images were found on Hoberman’s devices and accounts — many involving the stomach-turning sexual abuse of young toddlers and even newborns.

Hoberman, a licensed social worker from Plainview, pleaded guilty in June to distributing child porn videos on the social media app Kik, including footage of a baby less than 1 year old being raped.

She shared the sickening videos in 2024 while working in Melville as a therapist with kids 17 years old and younger.

On Friday, Hoberman initially entered the courtroom with a smile and waved to family members — but her smile dropped after Seybert handed down seven years.

Her defense attorney, Evan Sugar, said she was abandoned and sexually abused herself as a child, but didn’t go into details.

She later turned to drugs, including crack, to cope with the trauma and said she is now 16 months sober.

He asked Judge Joanna Seybert to sentence her to 2 to 3 years in prison.

But Seybert was not convinced.

“These are babies!” Seybert exclaimed.

“Something needs to be done — and jail is a deterrent.”

Haberman also spoke to the court and apologized to her family and victims in the videos.

“What I’ve been through is no excuse for my actions,” she told the judge. “Her conduct is simply grotesque,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Kaitlin McTague said in court.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: childtherapist; kik; plainview; reneehoberman

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1 posted on 02/21/2026 6:02:39 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

Demon.


2 posted on 02/21/2026 6:04:12 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: DFG

3 posted on 02/21/2026 6:04:19 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

Sometimes I wonder what’s taking God so long. 😔


4 posted on 02/21/2026 6:05:36 AM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: DFG

I think that a real justice system would use at least three types of punishment:

Corporal punishment — like the caning they do in Singapore.
Imprisonment — put some people in a cell for a period of time.
Capital punishment — just end the problem.

In my opinion, Capital punishment is one of the really important types and should be used far, far more than it currently is. She’s a real candidate for a quick death. How does society benefit from having her around?


5 posted on 02/21/2026 6:06:01 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Law and Order -- only one of our political parties believes in it.)
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To: V_TWIN

I think we are seeing the final revival of the church prior to the rapture....


6 posted on 02/21/2026 6:08:10 AM PST by SPDSHDW (A sinner saved by Jesus)
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To: DFG

hopefully general population will take care of this problem


7 posted on 02/21/2026 6:08:57 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Ice, Ice Baby)
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To: DFG

man there truly is some sick mfr’s in this world...


8 posted on 02/21/2026 6:11:36 AM PST by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

You omitted my favorite .. “Internal Exile”, specifically to the most remote, bear infested place in Alaska, and simply invited to “walk home”. For this woman, however, a drop-off into the shark-infested waters between the US and Cuba might be a better fit.


9 posted on 02/21/2026 6:14:34 AM PST by The Duke (Not without incident)
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To: V_TWIN

That tired saying overused by Hollywood applies:

“God works in mysterious ways.”

Maybe He wants us to stew in our own self created misery for a while?

And there are other cultures that have it far worse, for example Iran where the regime is slaughtering anyone that does not like the regime.


10 posted on 02/21/2026 6:14:48 AM PST by redfreedom (They’re AWFUL...Affuent White Female Urban Leftists)
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11 posted on 02/21/2026 6:18:39 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: DFG

She has the crazy eyes, alright.


12 posted on 02/21/2026 6:21:21 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: The Duke

Why is it that poeple from the lower 48 always want to dump their trash here?


13 posted on 02/21/2026 6:26:52 AM PST by FrozenAssets (You don't have to be crazy to live here, but it helps)
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To: ClearCase_guy

People sometimes wonder about whether or not the death penalty has a place in a ‘civilized’ society. And then we meet someone like this, and the answer that yes, it does, becomes abundantly clear. I wish now that I had not even learned of this demonic horror.


14 posted on 02/21/2026 6:27:35 AM PST by drwoof
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To: DFG

“and jail is a deterrent.”

So is a hanging.


15 posted on 02/21/2026 6:28:25 AM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times Editor)
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To: DFG

Only seven years???

Those poor babies. I hope that monster hasn’t messed them up for life. :(


16 posted on 02/21/2026 6:33:52 AM PST by Allegra (We will not be emotionally blackmailed into backing off what we voted for. )
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To: DFG

Somebody else for the Demoncrats to protect?


17 posted on 02/21/2026 6:36:42 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: sit-rep

I always wonder what seven years in prison - if she’s even there that long - is really going to do for someone this sick, and how it protects the community from her when she’s let out. We need insane asylums again, or at least facilities for the criminally insane that provide psychiatric observation and care.


18 posted on 02/21/2026 6:39:05 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DFG

Sometimes I think that we need to bring back burning at the stake.


19 posted on 02/21/2026 6:40:54 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Our long national nightmare is over!)
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"“What I’ve been through is no excuse for my actions,” she told the judge."

She said that to the judge after smiling and waving as she walked into the courtroom? How her lawyer could have advised her to do that I have no idea.
20 posted on 02/21/2026 6:41:11 AM PST by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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