Case of the Unnamed Father and friends who drugged, raped his daughter

Case of the Unnamed Father and friends who drugged, raped his daughter 

West London, England

Stamford Hill (London), England

This is a case of alleged incest and possible form of ritual abuse occurring in the Chasidic community in Stamford Hill, Great Britain.  According to reports a 16-year-old  girl was drugged, bound and blindfolded and then gang-raped by her father and his friends.  

The girl disclosed that she first made allegations of abuse in 2011 at school, but she revealed its full extent to a visiting rabbi in 2012.

The father is charged with various sexual offenses, including three counts of rape, and, with the family friend, of two counts of conspiracy to rape. He is also charged with perverting the course of justice for allegedly offering £1,000 to someone who knew the girl to persuade her not to press charges.

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2013

1. Girl claimed father gang-raped her (06/27/2013)

Also see: 

1. Policies For inclusion on The Awareness Center's Sex Offender's Registry
2. Listing Alleged and Convicted Sex Offenders
3. Ritual Abuse / Extreme Abuse

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Girl claimed father gang-raped her

By Anna Sheinman

Jewish Chronicle - June 27, 2013

A 16-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl was drugged, bound and blindfolded and then gang-raped by her father and his friends, a court heard this week.

The alleged victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said that on two occasions her father tied her hands together, covered her eyes with a blindfold and drove her for about 20 minutes to an unknown location, where six or seven men assaulted, raped and tortured her.

She said that large clips were attached to her breasts and electric shocks passed through them. On one occasion she said the men assaulted her with a live snake. In video evidence played in court, she said: “They put a snake on my body, I could feel there was a snake.”

She also claimed that on another occasion, she was ordered to perform sexual acts on a woman, but refused and started “kicking and screaming”.

She told the court that she had suffered abuse at the hands of her father over a period of seven years.

She said she was beaten if she resisted: “After a bit I felt mentally owned by them, they didn’t have to force me, they would just tell me and I would listen.”

The girl, who is now 18, claimed the abuse began with her father forcing her to take showers with him when she was 10. She said it escalated to rape when she was 14. When she was 16, she said her father began to facilitate her abuse by a family friend, the father of a classmate at the Jewish school she attended.

This began with an assault while she was at the man’s family home for Shabbat dinner.

The girl said her father and the family friend were both present at the gang rape, as well as another man who she described as a Chasidic Jew from Stamford Hill who worked with her father.

Prosecution lawyer Richard Merz said the girl did not tell anyone about the abuse because “her father had made threats that she would be abducted and sold into prostitution and that members of the family would be killed”.

She first made allegations of abuse in 2011 at school, but she revealed its full extent to a visiting rabbi in 2012.

Her father, who is from north west London, is charged with various sexual offences, including three counts of rape, and, with the family friend, of two counts of conspiracy to rape. He is also charged with perverting the course of justice for allegedly offering £1,000 to someone who knew the girl to persuade her not to press charges.

Defence lawyer Jonathan Goldberg QC, said the girl invented the allegations. He claimed she watched pornography on her laptop that depicted group sex and used that as inspiration. He added that teachers at her school thought she was an “attention seeker”.

The trial, at Wood Green Crown Court, continues.

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Case of Zora Flagashville

Case of Zora Flagashville

Haifa, Israel

Convicted of a gang rape and sodomy of a 20-year-old mentally disabled woman, and of confining her.

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 2004

1. Five convicted in group rape of mentally disabled woman  (03/23/2004)

Also see:  

• Case of Gil Dahan
• Case of Moshe Dahan (acquitted of all charges)
• Case of Moshe Grots
• Case of Zora Flagashvili
• Case of Avi Mizrahi  
• Case of David Mizrahi
• Case of Mordechai Mizrahi

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Five convicted in group rape of mentally disabled woman

By David Ratner

Haaretz - March 23, 2004

Five Haifa-area residents were convicted Tuesday at the Haifa District Court of rape and sodomy of a young mentally disabled woman, and of confining her.

The five are Avi Mizrahi, Zora Flagashvili, Mordechai Mizrahi, Gil Dahan and David Mizrahi. Another defendant, Moshe Grots, was convicted of assisting in the rape and the confinement, and Moshe Dahan was acquitted of all charges.

The men were convicted of performing group rape on a 20-year-old woman from the center of the country, who was staying in May 2002 in the Haifa Bay area. The young woman was first persuaded to perform intercourse with two of the men.

Afterwards, all five men had intercourse with the woman, who was injured in the act and required hospitalization.

Dahan, who was also accused of rape, was acquitted of all charges due to a police technical fault: he stood out at the lineup because he was the only on it with his hair tied up.

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Case of the Three Unnamed Students from Bat Yam Yeshiva

Case of the Three Unnamed Students from Bat Yam Yeshiva

Former Students - Bat Yam Yeshiva, Ayalon Region, Israel

Three students aged 13-14 were arrested and confessed to the allegations of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old schoolmate. 

This is a case that involved extreme abuse, torture and gang rape of 13-year-old child.  

In one of the initial meetings in the house of one of the suspects, they allegedly stripped the boy and drew smiley faces and swastikas on his body and sexual organs with a permanent marker. The youth repeatedly asked the suspects to stop their acts but this was met with punches.

The boy was also allegedly made to stand on his hands and knees, with the suspects riding on him and kicking him. "They occasionally blindfolded him, forced the youth to touch their sexual organs and attempted to force him to perform oral sex on them," Amar said.The suspects documented their actions with a digital camera and saved the images on their computer.

Bat Yam Yeshiva is connected with the Bobov Hassidic movement.

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2003 

1. Abuse of 13-year-old classmate began (10/2003)

2004

1. Police arrest three teenagers for alleged abuse of Bat Yam student (01/28/2004)

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Police arrest three teenagers for alleged abuse of Bat Yam student

By Roni Singer

Haaretz - January 28, 2004

Police have arrested three youths, aged 13-14, for the alleged abuse of a 13-year-old schoolmate.

Ayalon region police began investigating the case after friends convinced the Bat Yam teen to talk to a school counselor about the alleged abuse, which had been going on for around three months.

The three students, two of whom are in the same class as the complainant while the third is a grade above, were arrested and confessed to the allegations. They have been released to house arrest and indictments are expected.

The school principal learned of the case in two ways. A few days ago, teachers at the Bat Yam school noticed an 8th grade student being beaten in the schoolyard. When called for a talk with the principal, the student said he was beaten because he "did bad things," and said he was attacked by the friends of a classmate.

Simultaneously, the complainant and his friends approached the school counselor, saying they wished to tell her what was happening to the boy. The complainant was initially embarrassed but eventually agreed to detail in writing the abuse to which he had been subjected by his schoolmates.

"Once it became clear to the school that this was a case of serious sexual abuse, a municipal counselor reported the incidents to us," head of the Ayalon region police's youth division, Superintendent Irit Amar, told Haaretz.

According to the complainant, the abuse began in October 2003.

"The story began because of a debt of NIS 20 apparently owed by the youth," Amar explained. Two of the suspects asked the youth to accompany them after studies to a nearby public park where they forced him to lower his pants in order "to prove that you are a man," they told him.

"He was embarrassed, but they forcefully pulled down his pants. In a written testimony he told how a woman passing by at the time yelled at the suspects that they should be ashamed of their actions, thus putting an end to that particular incident," Amar said.

But that was just the beginning. The suspects allegedly met the youth repeatedly afterward for hours at a time and unmercifully abused him.

In one of the initial meetings in the house of one of the suspects, they allegedly stripped the boy and drew smiley faces and swastikas on his body and sexual organs with a permanent marker.

The youth repeatedly asked the suspects to stop their acts but this was met with punches.

The boy was also allegedly made to stand on his hands and knees, with the suspects riding on him and kicking him. "They occasionally blindfolded him, forced the youth to touch their sexual organs and attempted to force him to perform oral sex on them," Amar said.

The suspects documented their actions with a digital camera and saved the images on their computer.

The youth told investigators how his mother once called one of the suspects when she was looking for him. The suspect told the youth's mother he did not know where he was.

"He returned home humiliated and in tears," the youth's mother later told police, but he refused to tell his mother what happened.

After the alleged abuse came to light, the mother of one of the suspects called for a meeting of all the involved parties. She became furious when she learned that the complainant had turned to the school's principal and called him "stupid." The mother claimed that the affair was a case of nothing more than a childhood mischief.

The suspects explained during questioning that they imitated acts they saw in pornographic movies they watched while abusing the youth.

The three suspects are due to appear in Rishon Letzion's juvenile court this morning for a remand hearing.

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Case of Gang Rapes in Rishon Letzion and Ashdod, Israel

Case of Gang Rapes in Rishon Letzion and Ashdod, Israel

Rishon Letzion, Israel

Ashdod, Israel

Early May, 2001 there was a rash of violent sexual attacks on young women by males, including the gang rape of a 17-year-old in Rishon Letzion, and the sodomizing of a 13-year-old girl in Ashdod by three youths. In the former case, one defendant simply said that he was just "having some fun."

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2001

1. Gone Are The Days, Almost  (06/04/2001)

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Gone Are The Days, Almost

By Netty C. Gross

The Jerusalem Report - June 4, 2001

SECTION: Pg. 11

Was 1999 just two years ago? The question was posed one recent morning by an elderly resident of my Jerusalem neighborhood as she sifted through a stack of old newspapers before tossing them out. Indeed, glancing through the tabloids, those seemed, by comparison, such innocent times. Jordan's King Hussein was alive; Internet companies were sizzling; the peace process, however wobbly, was limping along; and, Yitzhak Mordechai, who had been fired as Bibi Netanyahu's defense minister, was being touted as a candidate for prime minister. ("It will either be Netanyahu and Barak, or Netanyahu and Mordechai" in the expected runoff, wrote one pundit.)

Accompanying photographs portrayed a thick-set, confident Mordechai shaking hands with Shas spiritual leader Ovadiah Yosef; another, at his 1997 wedding to a woman 25 years his junior. "And look at him now," sighed the woman, about 80. "He looks terrible. Skinny like a pencil. And his wife left him. It's so sad," she said wringing her hands.

At that moment, a neighbor - an 18-year old female soldier recently drafted intothe army - breezed by. In her case, two years really does make a difference, I observed silently. Just yesterday, it seemed, she was a kid; now, the uniform. There was something touching in her transition from shy schoolgirl to confident soldier.

Something scary too. In late April, two male judges - who evidently shared the older woman's sympathy - sentenced Mordechai, the highest-ranking Israeli public official and only prime ministerial candidate to ever be convicted of sexual assault, to an 18-month suspended jail term, explaining that they were averse to sending one of the country's greatest war heroes to prison. The third judge, a woman, wrote the dissenting opinion in favor of a four-month jail sentence.

According to the March verdict, on two separate occasions Mordechai attacked women who fended off his advances: One, an officer who worked for him in 1992; another, a married Likud activist who applied for a job in 1996 when he was that party's defense minister. For years they remained silent. It was the news that another woman had complained of a similar assault that led them to come forward.Ironically, Mordechai was acquitted of attacking her.

The state prosecutor's office is weighing an appeal against the sentencing, and Mordechai plans to appeal the verdict. The former jovial, contented pol, who has lost a ton of weight and developed an angry, haunted demeanor, continues to insist on his innocence. My elderly neighbor, for one, bought the ex-defense minister's victimizer-turned-victim act and felt he'd suffered enough. "And now, with the security situation what it is ... to jail a general?" she mumbled.

But it is the young draftee neighbor's world now. A friend, a leading academic who served decades ago under Mordechai, told me, quite casually, that "this stuff had been going on all the time. Girls used to come out of his office crying. But things are much better today."

Women's groups reacted with expected anger at Mordechai's light sentence; spokeswomen for Na'amat and WIZO and the Israel Women's Network say they are taking a wait-and-see approach, planning to wage both legal and public campaignsif the state does not file an appeal. Still, one can't help but notice a certainlack of public rage. A Saturday night demonstration in Tel Aviv was only attended by several hundred women. Na'amat legal counsel Michal Baron says Israelis are "just beginning to understand that what Mordechai did was a criminal offense and not an acceptable macho norm." Men, she says, like Mordechai, for whom women "are mere chattels" and Israeli women - like my elderly neighbor - who have been browbeaten into accommodating the situation, are "transitional figures."

And yet Baron, who recently represented Na'amat in a Supreme Court plea to overturn the appointment of Lt. Col. Yaron Be'eri to commander of the Southern Command's logistics unit, after receiving several complaints from married women soldiers about Be'eri's abusive behavior - including screaming, intimidation andmaking humiliating remarks about their job performance - acknowledges the difficulties of this transition period. The Mordechai conviction, she says, "wasa watershed event for us. That a man of his stature was found guilty is quite extraordinary. It's still very hard to get a conviction in these type of cases. The witnesses, typically, are terrified to come forward. This is a small country, and women are afraid to lose their jobs or get a reputation as a trouble-maker. It's also often hard to remember details in these type of cases, and the defense lawyers are very aggressive. Many women just crumble on the witness stand."

The judges, adds Baron, who says she anticipated Mordechai's light sentence, are also something of a mixed bag. "Some understand the severity of sexual harrassment, what it does to a woman to go through something like this, others don't." Still, Baron believes "there have been many positive changes. New social norms, which reflect the belief that aggressive male behavior toward women is not acceptable, are starting to sink in."

But not fast enough. Indeed, early May has seen a rash of violent sexual attackson young women by males, including the gang rape of a 17-year-old in Rishon Letzion, and the sodomizing of a 13-year-old girl in Ashdod by three youths. In the former case, one defendant simply said that he was just "having some fun."

I wonder what the elderly woman, who'd held on to those old, beaming press photos of Mordechai, thinks of that.

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