Case of Yosef Nunu
(AKA: Yoseph Nino, Joseph Nunu, Joseph Nino)
(AKA: Yoseph Nino, Joseph Nunu, Joseph Nino)
Security Guard - Herzliya, Israel
Kfar Saba's Meir Hospital- Herzliya, Israel
Kfar Saba's Meir Hospital- Herzliya, Israel
Yosef Nunu, a 70-year-old man was convicted and served a lengthy prison term for murdering his former wife and raping minors was arrested at the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba after allegedly molesting a 14-year-old suicidal girl whom he was employed to guard.
Nunu served 24 years of a life sentence for murdering his wife. He was released after receiving a presidential pardon.
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Table of Contents
2010
- Convicted murderer-pedophile molests suicidal girl at hospital (04/29/2010)
- Pedophile arrested in Israeli hospital (04/29/2010)
- Pedophile-killer 'molested suicidal girl' in hospital (04/30/2010)
- Killer, pedophile held for molesting girl he was hired to guard (04/30/2010)
- Ex-con hired to watch suicidal teen arrested for her attack (04/30/2010)
- Indictment: Watch guard befriended suicidal teen prior to sexual assault (05/05/2010)
- Arrest of hospital guard suspected of indecent acts remanded (06/21/2010)
- Law barring sex offenders from working with kids going unenforced (11/17/2010)
Convicted murderer-pedophile molests suicidal girl at hospital
By Raanan Ben - Zur
YNET News - April 29, 2010
Man hired by hospital through manpower agency to watch over 14-year-old says he merely kissed her forehead to list her spirits
Herzliya resident Yoseph Nino, 70, who served jail time for murdering a nurse and raping underage girls, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of molesting a suicidal 14-year-old girl who was under his observation at Kfar Saba's Meir Hospital.
The Kfar Saba Magistrate's Court extended his remand by five days.
The girl was admitted to the hospital last week after trying to commit suicide. The hospital hired Nino through a manpower agency to watch over her for fear she may try to hurt herself again.
Doctors who walked into the teen's room overnight Friday caught Nino in the act of fondling the girl and called the police.
The suspect has denied the allegations, saying he merely kissed the girl on the forehead to lift her spirits.
During his interrogation, Nino admitted to "massaging" the girl, but said he did not molest her.
Meital Yasur Beit-Or contributed to the report
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Pedophile arrested in Israeli hospital
UPI - April 29, 2010
JERUSALEM, April 29 (UPI) -- A
convicted pedophile guarding a 14-year-old girl recovering in an Israeli
hospital from a suicide attempt was charged Thursday with molesting
her.
Yoseph Nunu, 70, of Herzliya was arrested at the Meir Hospital in
Kfar Saba, Ynetnews reported. The hospital had assigned Nunu to watch
over the girl to make sure she made no further suicide attempts.
Nunu served time in prison for killing his wife and sexually assaulting young girls, officials said.
Police said a doctor discovered Nunu molesting the girl. Nunu denied
any sexual assault, saying he was only kissing her on the forehead.
Investigators were trying to determine if Nunu had been in contact
with other children or teenagers since his release from prison, the
Jerusalem Post reported.
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Pedophile-killer 'molested suicidal girl' in hospital
Jerasalem Post - April 30, 2010
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Killer, pedophile held for molesting girl he was hired to guard
By Yaakov Lappin
Jerusalem Post - April 30, 2010
A 70-year-old man from Herzliya who was convicted and served a lengthy prison term for murdering his former wife and raping minors was arrested at the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba on Thursday after allegedly molesting a 14- year-old suicidal girl whom he was employed to guard.
The suspect, Yosef Nunu, was hired by the Matav charity to work as a security guard. The charity's director was questioned by police under suspicion of employing a convicted felon…
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Ex-con hired to watch suicidal teen arrested for her attack
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Indictment: Watch guard befriended suicidal teen prior to sexual assault
By Raanan Ben-Zur
YNet - May 5, 2010
Severe
indictment filed against elderly man with prior convictions for murder
and rape who allegedly sang, gave candy to 14-year-old hospitalized
suicidal teen he was tasked with guarding, before molesting her. Suspect
says wanted to 'lift the girl's spirits'
An indictment was
filed Wednesday against 70-year-old Herzliya resident Yosef Nunu for
molesting a 14-year-old suicidal girl he was watching over at Kfar
Saba's Meir Hospital.
Nunu, who was hired by the hospital through the nursing-care agency
Matav to supervise the teen overnight despite being a convicted murderer
and sex offender, is accused of performing an indecent act while
exploiting a position of supervision and authority.
The girl was admitted to the hospital last week after attempting
suicide. Nunu was hired to watch over her for fear she may harm herself
again.
"He took advantage of the girl's innocence and mental state to satisfy his urges," the indictment read.
According to the charges, filed with the Kfar Saba Magistrates'
Court, last Friday night Nunu carried on a friendly chat with the girl
and her 17-year-old sister in the hospital's children's ward. He even
sang to the suicidal teen, made her laugh and gave her candy.
He then began stroking the girl's arm and forehead, massaged her
hands and feet and kissed her on the check and forehead. The older
sister was witness to Nunu's advances, but a curtain separated the
girl's bed from the beds of the other patients.
At some point Nunu accompanied the suicidal girl to the bathroom
while hugging her, and on the way stroked her face, neck, back and the
area above her sternum. She pushed him away when he tried to touch her
breasts, the indictment said. He managed to touch her stomach underneath
her shirt, and later kissed her lips and the palm of her hand.
The teen later complained to the hospital's nurses about Nunu.
In 1968 Nunu was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a
nurse in his cab after she had resisted his advances. He eventually
served 13 years for the crime.
In 1993 he was convicted of assault, and in 1998 he was
convicted of sexually assaulting an underage girl, for which he was
sentenced to four months community service.
In
2000 Nunu was convicted of sexually assaulting an underage boy and
performing a lewd act in front of a minor. He was sentenced to six years
in prison for these crimes.
The prosecution asked that Nunu remain in custody until the
conclusion of legal proceedings, claiming he poses a danger to the
public. The prosecution will present the testimonies of the two sisters
and doctors who claim they saw Nunu commit some of the acts he is
accused of.
Nunu has admitted to some of the allegations, but claims his
actions were not of a sexual nature and were meant to lift the suicidal
girl's spirits.
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Arrest of hospital guard suspected of indecent acts remanded
By Raanan Ben-Zur
YNET - June 21, 2010
The Kfar Saba Magistrates' Court has remanded the arrest of Yosef Nunu until the termination of the proceedings against him. Nunu is accused of performing indecent acts on a suicidal 14-year old girl he was hired to guard.
Nunu, a 70-year old resident of Herzliya, has previously served prison sentences for murder and sexual assault.
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Law barring sex offenders from working with kids going unenforced
By Jonathan Lis
Haaretz - November 17, 2010
Knesset Committee on the Rights of the Child reveals that from 2001
to 2007, police opened 4 investigations into employment of sex offenders
at places that work with children, and none resulted in an indictment.
Police cannot enforce a law barring sex offenders from working with
children, Tuesday's meeting of the Knesset Committee on the Rights of
the Child revealed.
The
2001 law bars the employment of sex offenders at any institution that
works with minors or the developmentally impaired. But from 2001 to June
2007, the committee learned, police opened only four investigations
into the employment of sex offenders at schools, daycare centers and
other places that work with children, and none resulted in an
indictment.
Every
year, some 780 Israelis are convicted of sex crimes. About 200 are
sentenced to jail and another 200 to community service, the Public
Security Ministry said. Ten to 15 percent of these people commit another
sexual offense within five years of their conviction.
Aryeh
Mor, who heads the Education Ministry's security department, told the
committee a directive was sent to all educational institutes detailing
the law's requirements. In particular, he said, they were told that
every student teacher must obtain authorization from the police that he
is not a sex offender, and schools must check these authorizations. The
directive also applied to summer camps, he said, while youth movements
and local authorities have issued similar instructions.
The
police set up a computerized system to issue the authorizations. But
between 2001 and June 2007, only two of the 67,500 people who sought
permits were rejected.
Superintendent
Meir Berkovich told the MKs that police cannot spare time from their
many other urgent tasks to actively seek out employers who violate the
law, so they investigate only on tips.
Mor
said that as far as the ministry knows, not a single institution has
thus far failed to demand the requisite authorizations. But committee
chairman Zevulun Orlev (Habayit Hayehudi ) was not reassured.
"If
you haven't found even one case of an institution failing to perform
such a check of its employees, that raises questions," he said. "There's
no such thing as perfection. So if you haven't found even a single
violator, that means your supervision is flawed."
He
also criticized the police, saying, "If only four cases were opened,
and not a single indictment filed, during the law's seven and a half
years of existence, then something is very wrong with the supervision
and enforcement system."
Attorney
Meira Bassok of the Na'amat women's organization cited another problem:
Community centers, she said, are not covered by the Education
Ministry's directive, and many are not aware that they have to obtain
police authorization for their employees.
Orlev
also complained about the lack of a system to warn institutions if an
employee commits a sex offense after being hired. He proposed police set
up a system to automatically cross-check their database of offenders
with their database of people who received permits to work with
children.
One
recent high-profile case in which a convicted sex offender was found to
be working with minors despite the law occurred in April, when Yosef
Nunu - a man convicted of both murder and multiple sex offenses against
minors - was arrested for indecent assault against a suicidal
17-year-old he had been hired to care for at Meir Hospital in Kfar Sava.
He was hired by Matav, an organization that provides caregivers for
patients who need round-the-clock care. The organization subsequently
claimed that by law, it is forbidden to ask its employees for a
good-conduct certificate from the police, and therefore did not know
about Nunu's criminal past.
Ofra Edelman contributed to this report.
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