Case of the Unnamed Police Detective in Israel

Case of the Unnamed Police Detective  in Israel

Israel

Israeli police detective accused of sexual advances to  an undercover agent posing as a 13-year-old girl over the Internet and on the phone.

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2012

1. Cop indicted for seeking to sexually harass girls online (12/31/2012)
   

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Cop indicted for seeking to sexually harass girls online
By Eli Senyor

YNET NEWS - December 31, 2012

Police detective accused of making sexual advances at undercover agent posing as 13-year-old girl; 'I imagined you naked,' he told her

The police's internal investigation department on Saturday filed charges against a cop arrested as part of a crackdown on pedophiles trolling for victims on the Internet.

The police detective is accused of trying to sexually harass a minor.

According to the indictment, about two years ago the defendant engaged in lewd conversations with an undercover agent posing as a 13-year-old girl over the Internet and on the phone.

"I imagined you naked," he told the agent on one occasion.

"Tell me what you want me to do to your body? I'm horny for you. Please," he said on another.

"Do you want to be my girlfriend?" He propositioned. "If you'll be my girlfriend we will hug and kiss."

The cop was arrested and suspended soon after making the advances.

According to the prosecution, he also accessed police records to learn about women he met online.

This past summer, an extensive undercover police investigation exposed a large online pedophile ring operating in Israel.

According to the police, more than 30 suspects were arrested as part of the investigation, which was described as the first and largest of its kind to ever take place in the country.

"I told them I was 12 and that I was shy, but it didn’t even deter them," an undercover agent involved in the operation said at the time. "They went to great lengths to try to get me to meet with them. The conversations were very sexual in nature. It was appalling."

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(Australia) Protect Our Children - Jewish community members in Australia taking action against sexual abuse

by Vicki Polin

Skokie Sexual Abuse Examiner - May 24, 2012

http://www.examiner.com/article/jewish-community-members-australia-taking-action-against-sexual-abuse

View slideshow: Sexual abuse scandl in the Jewish community of Melbourne

This week an ad was placed in the Jewish news media in Melbourne, Australia, regarding the alleged ongoing corruption in their community when it comes to how cases of sexual abuse have been mishandled over the years.  Melbourne is not alone in the frustration Jewish community members from in cities around the globe are frustrated and are starting to demand accountability from religious and other leaders.

Manny Waks, who is a spokesperson for survivors and is a member of The Awareness Center’s international advisory board stated:

"The fact that it has gotten to this stage, where supporters of child sexual abuse victims and their families feel the need to take out paid ads in the media in order to combat the ongoing abuse from a fringe sector within our community, is a terrible blight on the entire Jewish community.

My understanding is that these ads were initiated specifically to address the appalling attitude and actions of the Yeshivah Centre leadership and a small but not insignificant group of their followers. This re-victimisation must cease immediately. Victims and their families must be supported. Many have taken the very brave stand in taking these allegations to the police and the last thing we need is for them and their families to endure additional pain and suffering. It is simply unacceptable.

The Yeshivah Centre should undertake a process of serious introspection. They should also consider carefully the Magistrate’s comments against one of their leaders, former Yeshivah College Principal (and current teacher and Student Welfare Officer) Rabbi Avrohom Glick, whom she described his evidence as having no credibility whatsoever and especially that it is “unfathomable” that Rabbi Glick only became aware of the abuse in the last 10 years. Many of us who have made allegations regarding Yeshivah's facilitation and cover up of these crimes feel vindicated by the Magistrate's remarks. Hopefully this indictment will instigate a major re-think on the part of the Yeshivah leadership.

From a personal perspective, I and many of the other victims have been overwhelmed and humbled by the ongoing support from all sectors of the Jewish community—both in Australia and globally—including many from within the Yeshivah Centre community who have been appalled by the unconscionable, immoral and irreligious actions by the Yeshivah leadership. Having said that, unfortunately there have been numerous attempts by a fringe group within the ultra-Orthodox community to silence me personally through harassment, intimidation and threats. I am also aware that a number of individuals within the Yeshivah community have been significantly pressured to tow the Yeshivah leadership’s line—including through threats of excommunication. For those engaged in such actions I say, you will never succeed. We will remain resolute in our actions to combat this scourge.

As it says in the Torah, 'Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof' or 'Justice you shall pursue'. This is precisely what we are doing for the benefit of the entire community—to ensure we get justice for the victims, to increase our children's safety and to comprehensively change the appalling attitude to child sexual abuse within the ultra-Orthodox community."