3 More Jerusalem Pedophiles Arrested

After a gap of months peppered with reports that cops had botched the investigation, Jerusalem Police arrested three additional men today in what police are calling Jerusalem’s largest pedophilia case, with at least nine suspects who abused around 70 children in Jerusalem’s Nahlaot neighborhood.

3 more arrested in Nahlaot pedophile case
At least 9 suspects allegedly abused more than 70 children in insular Jerusalem neighborhood.
MELANIE LIDMAN • Jerusalem Post
 
Jerusalem Police arrested three additional men on Sunday morning in what police are calling Jerusalem’s largest pedophilia case, with at least nine suspects who abused around 70 children in Jerusalem’s Nahlaot neighborhood.

Police believe the suspects were not working in an organized crime ring but knew of each other and sometimes carried out the abuse in pairs. More arrests are expected. Parents in the neighborhood claim there are more than 20 suspects and over 100 victims, some as young as two years old.

One man who was being investigated by police as a possible suspect was found dead in his Nahlaot apartment two weeks ago. Police classified his death as a suicide.

Police first received complaint of abuse in 2010 against a single suspect, who was arrested but later released to house arrest. It wasn’t until July of 2011 that more parents began to come forward with complaints, and police realized that they were dealing with multiple pedophiles and dozens of victims. A special investigation unit was created to look into the children’s claims of abuse. Investigating pedophilia is extremely difficult because children are so impressionable that even hearing about other incidents from their parents can compromise the investigation, explained a police source.

The abuse started as early as 2006 or 2007, but police believe that the haredi community tried to take care of the problem internally for a number of years. They finally turned to the police in July of 2011 because they could no longer deal with it themselves, said a police source. Since the summer, there has been significant cooperation between the haredi community and the police, despite the fact that the haredi community in Nahlaot is one of the more extreme sects and is usually reluctant to cooperate with secular authorities.

Six men were arrested over the course of the summer, but police were only able to gather enough proof to indict three of them, Binyamin Satz, Bentzion Primishelanu, and Zalman Cohen. The three men are currently detained and will remain incarcerated until the end of the legal proceedings against them.

On Sunday morning around 3:00 a.m., police arrested three additional suspects, aged 19, 50, and 60, all religious men from the Nahlaot neighborhood. The Jerusalem Magistrate Court extended their remand for five days.

Last Tuesday, Knesset members from the Committee for the Rights of the Child expressed their outrage that many of the suspects were still at large and coming into daily contact with their victims. A mother of eight, four of whom were abused, gave heartbreaking testimony and said her son still meets his abuser on the way to the school bus despite sitting with investigators for more than 12 hours.

A police source said that police had stepped up patrols of undercover policemen, had installed additional security cameras in the neighborhood, and met with parents to instruct them how not to compromise the investigation.

“I’m just upset, I want to know what’s happening,” said a Nahlaot resident, R. S., on Sunday. “I don’t know if the legal system will convict the guilty, and I feel all the perpetrators haven’t been identified,” he said. R. S. added that he knew one of the suspects personally through a community garden in the neighborhood.

[Hat Tip: Skeptical Yid.]

Comments

[Abu Jihad Schneerson]

One thing I'll never understand:I NEVER read about the fathers of these kids beating these reshaim senseless or even killing them.How is it possible that in the black hat community one tollerates that his son is raped by some filthy,degenerate and do nothing about it?

[A. Nuran]

How is it possible? People are conditioned to respect and revere their rabbis. And emotional reactions notwithstanding most people are very inhibited against murderous violence even if it's justified. It takes a serious run-up to turn a normal person into a killer.

[jancsipista]

we should not be very surprised when among theese hareisim with their long payes and beard we get so many molesters after all the payes is a phallic symbol for those who dont know what a phallic is it is the male genetalia..

[YbM]

עַל הַצַּדִּיקִים וְעַל הַחֲסִידִים

[adams]

regarding beating up the abusers, you don't see it in general society either, except in jail.

I imagine that the parents consult with Expert Psychologists on how to help their children, this would be the main priority, probably it would not help for the father to get jailed for assault or murder, i.e. it would make it worse for the child.

The issue is more where the community does not go to the police immediatly to catch and stop the abusers.
Completely stopping every act of abuse is hard and probably never will be, but limiting the damage can be done.

[Fidel Castro]

Hey, jancsipista , I think it was Freud who said, "Sometimes payes are only payes."

[Adam Neira]

Shocking.

Prayers for the victims.

[Yosef]

Prayers...and tears. May Hashem help them to be healthy and strong, til 120.

[Yosef]

And Yasher Ko'ach to the police for protecting precious children. May Hashem shower them with bracha and further success.
May He grant strength to the parents, whose pain must be excrutiating.

Excruciating

[DMV DMV]

the haredi community in Nahlaot is one of the more extreme sects and is usually reluctant to cooperate with secular authorities. - how are they more extreme? They are nice to me and don't spit at women

[DMV DMV]

The pedophile that are you are referring to, [REDACTED], did not committ suicide - he was murdered according to the word on the street - his hands and feet were found tied up.

[Steven]

And it's possible that Yochanan was a paedophile because he was abused as a child by his murderer's father.

[jancsipista]

Fidel Castro- the younger generation even in the older ones i see constantly while walking on the street or in the synagougue they stroke play with their payes nonstop i see it it is a repugnant behaviour constantly grooming it one guy i saw did it nonstop for 15 minuts this is a sign of mental disturbance as i wrote before extreeme supression leads to bezarre behaviour and theese hassidim are very supressed we see they constantly want to dictate to tohers woman how they should behave it is also a sign of dee mental problems the, it is almost obvious that the payes is the phallic symbolits a no brainer.

[Committee for Responsible Reporting]

Shouldn't the word 'alleged' find its way into the headline somehow?

[Hometown Postville]

And thus begats another dysfunctional generation....