The girl, whose name is being withheld by DailyMail.com because she is a minor, said the online relationship began last January while she was a high school sophomore and before Weiner's wife, Hillary Clinton's aide Huma Abedin, announced she was ending their marriage.
Weiner was aware that the girl was underage, according to DailyMail.com interviews with the girl and her father, as well as a cache of online messages.
In the online messages, Weiner, 51, sent bare-chested photos of himself to the underage girl, repeatedly called her 'baby' and complimented her body, and told her that he woke up 'hard' after thinking about her, according to copies of the conversations.
In one particularly lewd message, he told the teen: 'I would bust that tight p***y so hard and so often that you would leak and limp for a week.'
When confronted with the claims, Weiner did not deny exchanging 'flirtatious' messages with the teen. He declined to comment on the specifics of the allegations on the record, but provided copies of two emails the girl sent him that he contends raised questions about her claims. DailyMail.com publishes them below.
He gave a statement to DailyMail.com in which he says, in part: 'I have repeatedly demonstrated terrible judgement about the people I have communicated with online and the things I have sent. I am filled with regret and heartbroken for those I have hurt.'
The revelation comes just weeks after Weiner's wife Huma Abedin announced that they had separated in the wake of another sexting controversy.
In August, the New York Post reported on sexual chats between Weiner and a 40-year-old woman, during which the former congressman sent her provocative shirtless photos of him while his four-year-old son was curled up next to him in bed.
Weiner has faced a number of sexting scandals since 2011, when he was forced to resign from Congress after his online sexual messages with a female college student were revealed.
Another sexting scandal in 2013, involving 22-year-old Sydney Leathers, derailed his bid for New York City mayor. In the course of that scandal, his alias Carlos Danger was disclosed.
The former congressman has faced scrutiny over online chats with minors in the past.
In 2011, he admitted to sending five private Twitter messages to a 17-year-old girl, but said the messages 'were neither explicit nor indecent'. The girl's family told the New York Times that the conversation appeared to be harmless.
DailyMail.com reached out to the 15-year-old girl's family earlier this month after receiving information about her relationship with Weiner.
Although the girl said she did not want to press charges because she believes her relationship with Weiner was consensual, she and her father agreed to sit down for an interview out of concern that Weiner may be sexting with other underage girls.
'If there's anybody out there that has a similar story that they can come forward, maybe use my daughter's example to have the courage to come forward,' said her father, whose name is also being withheld to shield the girl's identity.
He explains that he did not contact authorities to report Weiner because his daughter asked him not to. 'I agreed because her mental health is in jeopardy and I didn't want to exacerbate anything that she has mentally going on.'
Through interviews and a collection of online messages from applications such as Twitter, Facebook, Kik, and Confide, DailyMail.com has pieced together a timeline of Weiner's relationship with the underage girl.
The girl first reached out to Weiner on the evening of January 23, 2016, when she noticed his Twitter page allowed non-followers to contact him through direct private messages.
She told DailyMail.com she was interested in politics and had heard about his sexting scandals, and was curious to see what he was like.
It was clear from the messages that she was encouraging Weiner to engage with her in a sexual manner. She told DailyMail.com she didn't consider Weiner her boyfriend, but thought the relationship was a 'romantic' one.
She acknowledged during interviews that she had developed an obsession with Weiner, and sought him out on Twitter in January while trying to write a book about him. She said she continued to write the book as their relationship developed.
'Why did I message you [in January]?' the girl wrote in an email to Weiner last week. 'I was studying you- for a book of course. You were my Hannibal Lecter.
'I wanted to know what made you tick. As we chatted, I pretended to not know EVERYTHING about you. I didn't want to appear suspicious.'
She also told Weiner: 'I was obsessed with you.'
Weiner quickly messaged her back, and they struck up a conversation about the large snowstorms that had hit New York and the girl's home state.
The messages started out as small talk, and during their conversation the girl noticed that Weiner had also found her profile on Facebook and sent her a friend request.
'Where do you go to school?' Weiner asked her.
'[Redacted] High School,' she responded.
'You are kinda sorta gorgeous,' Weiner told her, before asking around midnight why she wasn't with a boyfriend that night.
'My dad is overprotective,' said the girl. '[Boyfriends] couldn't be at my house this late.'
The next morning, the girl woke up to find a private message from Weiner on Facebook asking how her night had gone.
'How did you sleep?' the girl asked him.
'Not great. Woke up very, uh, eager,' he replied.
He continued to send her flirtatious messages throughout the day, saying he was 'imagining' her when she was in the shower and saying she must get a lot of male attention at the gym.
At one point, Weiner indicated that he knew the conversation could be a problem.
'[I]f anyone would get the wrong impression we should say goodbye now,' said Weiner. However, he did not stop the conversation.
Instead he told the girl they could talk over other chat applications that would not be monitored by her parents.
They began talking on Kik, an instant message app, where Weiner used the screen name 'T Dog.' He sent her photos of himself shirtless, including one photo of him in a hot tub that showed his face.
'Maybe delete that. Hehe,' he wrote after sending it.
In many of the messages, they discussed Weiner's trips to the gym and love of hockey, and the girl's school activities and her newly acquired learner's permit. But in a number of them, Weiner steered the conversation toward sex.
'I thought of you this am. Hard,' he wrote in one.
The girl asked if she was the reason.
'Yes. And the solution,' responded Weiner, adding an emoji image of squirting water.
'Your body is pretty insane,' he told her at another point.
When the girl told Weiner she'd just gotten home from the gym, he wrote back, 'Hard. Again'.
Several of the messages involve finding times to talk over Skype, a video messaging application, when the girl's parents were asleep or out of the house.
'Skype may have to be a tomorrow thing,' the girl wrote in one message. 'if I skyped you tonight id have to play music as we talked so that my parents couldn't hear me talking and I'd have to keep the lights off.'
'No prob baby,' replied Weiner. 'Some other time. When it's easier.'
The girl told DailyMail.com that she and Weiner first started talking on Skype a few days into the relationship.
'[Weiner's] son was in the bathtub at the time just downstairs,' she said. 'So he would yell at his son to check on him, and then he asked me to take my clothes off, and just started saying these really sexual things.'
Afterward, Weiner sent her a message with a heart-eyed emoji, writing 'I caught a glimpse of your body' and indicating he would like to keep talking over Skype.
She claimed the conversations grew more explicit as time went on, with Weiner allegedly asking her to undress and encouraging her to masturbate over video chat.
She said Weiner would not get fully nude, but was usually shirtless and wearing boxers.
'He would tell me to say his name as I was touching myself,' said the girl. 'He would ask me to take my clothes off.
'He would just have his shirt off. Sometimes he would grab his lower region, but that was about it,' she added.
Although Weiner did not get undressed on video, she alleges that he did send her nude photos of himself when they would sext over a messaging app.
The app, which is called Confide, is designed for confidentiality, and automatically deletes messages and images after the first time they are read or viewed.
However, the girl took photos of a few of the messages and images from last February and March, which she shared with Dailymail.com.
'When we would Skype, he would tell me that he was very lonely and that it had been a year since he and his wife [Huma] had sex, and that she really didn't pay him any attention,' said the girl. 'We would talk, just chatting for about 30 minutes and it would lead to more sexual things…asking me to undress…he'd comment on my body. He asked me about masturbation, and that kind of thing.'
Sometimes, she claims, Weiner would ask the girl to dress up in plaid skirts and pretend he was her school teacher, she said.
'He would pretend like he was a teacher and I was a student. And he'd talk about me sitting in the front of his class, and him taking me after school,' she said.
He also shared pornographic videos with her, she added.
The girl said she was not uncomfortable with the sexting, except for when Weiner would try to engage her in 'rape fantasies'.
'He had some rape fantasies. It would just be him showing up at my house when my dad was out of town,' she said. 'And just start undressing me, being forceful, asking me if I want to be dominated, strange questions.'
She said when she told him she was uncomfortable with this, he quickly agreed to change the subject.
The girl said she started feeling guilty about hiding the relationship, and told her father and a teacher about it in late April.
'I was scared. I felt bad for talking to [Weiner],' she said. 'I felt a little guilty and I wrote [my dad] a letter telling him.'
But the girl also continued to talk to Weiner. The former congressman pressured her to write two more letters to her father and teacher saying that she lied about the natures of their relationship and the two of them were just friends.
She told Weiner that she would do this, and she sent them to bogus email addresses and sent a copy to Weiner.
'After I told my teacher about the relationship, [Weiner] wanted me to email my dad and my teacher and tell them that was I said was false,' she said. 'That the conversations were appropriate and were never inappropriate, and he was very helpful.'
Weiner sent DailyMail.com a copy of the letter he believed she sent to her teacher.
The girl said she continued to talk to Weiner until July.
'After seeing what he did with his son having him in the picture that was released, I think that he's very disgusting and he needs help,' she said.
She said she never viewed him as her 'boyfriend', and that he made this clear by talking to her about his relationships with other women.
'He talked about women he would meet up with and have sex with, women he would meet at the gym, women he would chat with online,' she said.
'He would also talk about going to different gyms, and getting different gym memberships, just to go watch 18-year-olds work out that would go to NYU and different schools in New York,' she added.
However, she said he never mentioned relationships with other underage girls.
'I actually asked him if he talked to other minors and he said not that he knew of, which is the risk that he kind of takes when he's talking to women on the internet,' she said.
The girl's father said he was horrified when he learned 51-year-old Weiner had been speaking with his daughter over Skype.
'I couldn't stomach that,' he said. 'That really was the worst part I think, was knowing that inappropriate behavior was available to my daughter by this man.'
He said if he ever met Weiner: 'There wouldn't be any words. There would be no words. I hope I never come in contact with him. I'll be in jail if I come into contact with him.'
While the girl said she does not regret the relationship, her father said the experience has changed her.
'She's gone through some depression, we've sought counselling and been able to help her work through it,' he said.
'She's a bright girl, very smart, so this has somewhat dulled the light that she had previous to this…it's gut-wrenching to see somebody take that away.'
Culled From Daily Mail UK
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