Braverman allegedly has a long history of sexually abusing children, but his haredi victims and their families refused to cooperate with police because of the halakhic (Orthodox-haredi Jewish law) prohibition against mesirah (informing on another Jew) and because local haredi rabbis ordered them not to, claiming that Braverman was in therapy and being medicated to prevent recurrence.
Above: Eliyahu Lipa Braverman in court Sunday
Haredi Man, Suspected Of Serial Sexual Assaults Against Little Haredi Girls, Indicted
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
On Sunday, Eliyahu Lipa Braverman (also spelled Bvarman), a 30-year-old haredi man from Bnei Brak, was indicted for sexually assaulting a five year-old haredi girl in a stairwell of her apartment building, Walla! News reported.
As FailedMessiah.com reported last week, the girl’s father entered the the stairway and Braverman, realizing he was about to be discovered, ran away.
He was chased by the girl’s father and other local haredim, corned in another building’s stairwell, and was arrested there by police. The little girl reportedly asked her father if Braverman was "a tzaddik (saint) or a rasha (evil man)," after the attack.
Braverman allegedly has a long history of sexually abusing children, but his haredi victims and their families refused to cooperate with police because of the halakhic (Orthodox-haredi Jewish law) prohibition against mesirah (informing on another Jew) and because local haredi rabbis ordered them not to, claiming that Braverman was in therapy and being medicated to prevent recurrence.
Walla! News reports that police believe Braverman sexually assaulted many other little girls in Modi’in Illit, where he lived for six years before fleeing the city and moving to Bnei Brak after a victim’s father threatened to report him to police. Haredi rabbis also allegedly have a signed agreement with Braverman mandating that he take medicine to blunt his sex drive and that he stay in therapy.
But as was reported last last week, Braverman stopped taking his medicine shortly after signing that deal with the rabbis and left therapy.
Braverman’s indictment contains evidence from a longtime prosecutor at the Modi’in Illit Prosecutor’s Office. From 2006 to 2012, he testified that he received many complaints about sexual assaults allegedly committed by Braverman against young haredi girls. But none of those haredi families would to file criminal complaints.
The indictment reportedly also says that in June 2012, two haredi girls aged three and four and their father alleged that Braverman sexually assaulted the two girls. The father allegedly gave Braverman a letter threatening to go to police. Braverman panicked. He chased after the father and pleaded with him, saying that he was sick and taking medication. Don’t call police, Braverman pleaded. “From tomorrow morning and on you will not see me again.” The next morning, Braverman called the father and begged him again not to call police. Braverman also promised that he and his father would pay for private psychotherapy for the girls.
That very day, Braverman and his family fled Modi’in Illit and the victims’ father did not file a criminal complaint with police.
Police initially feared the same thing would happen in this most recent case.
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