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.
“Her conduct is simply grotesque,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Kaitlin McTague said in court.
“[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.
One of the stomach-turning videos Hoberman shared showed a baby between 6 months and 1 year old being held down and raped by an adult man, according to prosecutors, who asked that she be sentenced to 10 years.
She also participated in perverted online chat rooms in which she posed as the father of several children and claimed to have had sex with them.
“The user further claimed that ‘he’ would have anal sex with the children and would punish the children by getting naked, stripping the children naked, and spanking them while the other children watched,” according to her criminal complaint
“The absolute depravity of Renee Hoberman’s crimes, committed while she was entrusted as a mental health counselor for children, represents a staggering betrayal of the public trust and a horrific violation of innocent lives,” Homeland Security Investigations Acting Special for New York Charge Alfonso, who helped with the case, said Friday.
“I hope the defendant’s sentencing delivers a measure of justice to the Long Island community and offers hope for healing to her traumatized victims.”
