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The data is difficult: In Israel, 2017, 94 percent of the children who complain about sexual abuse will finish the process without there being a indicted. And there are many reasons: repeated police failures, a surveillance unit that can track only a few pedophiles every day and a police call center established in May, but if you dial 105, you'll only hear a busy signal. And even when they are caught, it does not always help: For example, a pedophile who is accused of harassing 18 children is walking freely. And another pedophile, convicted of molesting four girls, was sent to only one year's imprisonment. An investigative report by Yedioth Ahronoth reveals that Israel has become a paradise for pedophiles. The full story ...

"It happened two and a half years ago," recalls Margalit (a pseudonym), a mother from the center of the country. "I was very frightened and arrived quickly, and at the station they told me that my son had corresponded with a girl in Instagram, and I said, 'Okay, well, what's the problem?' They said that she wrote to my son, 'I will picture myself and you will send me pictures of you,' she told him that she was filming herself and asked him to send pictures of his penis and then she would send her. She told him: 'If you do not send me any more pictures, I'll send your picture in your underwear to everyone.' "She showed him that she knew his friends, and my son pleaded with her not to send, so she told him "If you want me not to send, let's meet." Fortunately, he did not go to the meeting and this affair was just revealed by the police. "

Stop the child?

"It was not a girl at all, it was a pedophile who had squeezed my son's off, even some of my son's friends, and in some cases he passed pictures of each other to show that his threats had a basis."

How did you feel when you realized that a Padophile was bothering your son?

"It was one of my most terrifying moments in life, a crazy pressure, helplessness, all the time I was always afraid of my daughters, I kept warning them to watch out for anyone trying to get close to them.

What did you do the moment you discovered what happened?

"I talked to him, I assured him, we went to the Hagana Center, which is a place where we take testimony from the child.

What happened to the person who allegedly harassed him?

"They filed an indictment against him, but eight months ago he contacted my son again, and my son immediately recognized who he was, went out to the school counselor and told her that he was the same guy, and said to the same guy, 'Listen, "My friend and I will find you and show you what it is." They asked me to go back to the police, as if to complain a second time, but my son did not want to go to the police, and he said, 'Mom, what will he give us? For months he will return to the trouble, I'm not afraid of him. '"

The same defendant, who was charged with injuring Margalit's son, was charged with injuring no less than 18 children, threatened them and asked for their nude photos. He was charged with 24 counts. According to the indictment, although his methods were not particularly sophisticated, and he operated among others in Instagram and Facebook, the police did not succeed in getting on him, and he is suspected of committing the acts for a very long time - about a year and a half. Today, more than two years after the indictment was filed, in which he has already been released to house arrest, and according to new suspicions of harassing children again, he has not yet been sentenced. His name was banned for publication.

On the other hand, pedophile Jerry Fenton, who sent naked pictures of minors and threatened them, was sentenced to 40 years in prison after a trial that lasted only four days. It did not happen in Israel, but in the United States. Fenton, who will be serving his sentence at the age of 77, will have to be supervised 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He will never be able to contact children and wherever he wishes to live, he will have to inform the residents of the area in advance that they can express their objection.

The Yedioth Ahronoth investigation reveals that all the systems that are supposed to deal with enforcing pedophilia in Israel are failing to fulfill their role. In the area of legislation, Israel is significantly lagging behind. Pedophile courtship after a child, for example, is not considered an offense. In addition, much of the pedophile sex offenses are considered minor offenses in the Israeli Penal Code, and the sentences given by the courts are not serious enough in many cases. At the same time, the police sometimes conduct some of the investigations in this area in an astonishing manner, and also the initiative of the Minister of Public Security to establish a comprehensive system to combat the phenomenon, stuck even though tens of millions of shekels have already been spent on it. In the rehabilitation of pedophiles we discovered that there is a wonderful infrastructure of the Ministry of Social Affairs, but in Israel 2017, pedophiles are given the right to choose whether to go to rehabilitation. And most of them, miraculously, choose not to come.

1. Temptation: A daily war

"We are dealing with a state plague and we are not treating it properly," says Limor Etzioni, a dean of the Sha'arei Mada and Law Center and an expert on pedophilia. Hundreds of children are affected by this phenomenon and at the end of this day will harm us as a society in the future. Just as today's crimes are floating 20 years ago and everyone is asking why it is now coming out. The reason is that it takes time to process the injury and get it out. A child who is injured at the age of five will not always run to tell parents, and it could suddenly emerge at the age of 25. We must as a society understand that just like the security challenges, this is also a national mission. "

Dr. Etzioni "National Mission"

Let's start with the numbers - according to most studies today, no less than one percent of the population has pedophilic tendencies. According to professional estimates, there are about 70,000 pedophiles in Israel. Dr. Ilan Rabinovich explains the large numbers: "The vast majority of pedophiles are men. There are very few women, but it is completely marginalized. The percentage of the population that the study speaks of is divided into two: those who suffer from practical pedophilia, that is, those who have relationships with children under or at the onset of adolescence, and those suffering from latent pedophilia. They say: That's what attracts me, but because of the fear and because I know where it can lead, I put myself in a wall and make do with child pornography or masturbation and fantasy in this area, or I have regular sex while fantasizing about children. "

What causes pedophile to move from the latent stage to the practical stage?

"The problem with pedophilia is that sometimes the disorder takes control of the person and not of her, and then there is a combination of a lack of impulse control and an obsession with children, and the pedophiles I come across are told that this is what controls them, often they will go to work with children. They have something in their cultural orientation that they are attracted to like a butterfly to a fire and they will prefer a children's company in a significant way. "The main problem they themselves testify to and we see in research is that once they cross the red line, there is no way back."

In other words, a pedophile who dared to have sex with a child would cross the line again?

"This is not a question of whether they will cross it again, but only when, because this attraction is stronger than they are, and they will recognize the potential child everywhere and create a whole web of cobwebs to capture him. Young children will tempt the child to come to them, give him favors, not necessarily gifts, but attention, and then there is a process that they say they really fall in love with those children, including sexual fantasies. "

Reuven (pseudonym) is a pedophile who is currently at the end of a four-year treatment that also includes group intensive treatment for sex offenders in the Ministry of Welfare. At the same time, he receives a drug to calm the sexual drive (a monthly injection, sometimes referred to as "chemical castration").

Reuven agreed to meet with us and shared with us what was going on in his head: "You are flooded with sex, you have fantasies, attraction, and I often reconstructed the scenes that I hurt the children, which made me happy. I look at the window, see a child and go on to him, so with the treatment I realized that I should not approach the window in the first place, but the injection gives you time to think, it lowers the sexual drive, which is driven like any other impulse. I say to myself that I have to be alert, it's a daily war And death. "

If you think of a child, what do you do?

"If I see that I'm not moving myself, then I go, talk to someone, and if there's no one to talk to, I keep myself away, I do all sorts of things to remind myself: I want to go back to prison, do I want a good life or do I want to continue with the life I lived in the past? "

2. Investigations: No charges

The Child Investigations Unit of the Ministry of Social Affairs receives more complaints every year about child sexual offenses. If in 2013 2,460 children were complained, by 2016 the number had grown to 2,902 - an increase of 18 percent within three years. Within the framework of the Unit, protection centers are operated throughout the country, where children arrive with their parents to file a complaint. We visited one of these defense centers and found a wonderful facility that allows children to file the complaint in the most comfortable conditions possible. Daniella Metty, the director of one of the Haganah centers, says: "The first person they meet is a social worker, she meets with the parents and a little hears how they came here: if the child is frightened, if the child is anxious, if the child wants to come, The whole emotional state of the child. "

One of the child protection centers. A wonderful facility that allows children to file complaints under the most favorable conditions

"We know that the main parameter in the rehabilitation of children is the reaction of the environment at the time of exposure," said Chava Levy, a senior social worker at the Youth Law, who says that once the response of the environment is more inclusive, supportive and believable and will accompany the child correctly and professionally, Therefore, as soon as we sit here opposite a family and a child, the first thing we make clear to him is: We are with you, we support you. "

However, our examination indicates that the wonderful work of the children's investigators and the defense centers is often lost. In fact, only six percent of the children who come to testify in the police, and not in the defense centers, will reach the point where an indictment will be filed against the suspect who injured them. In other words, 94 percent of the children who complain to the police end the process without being indicted.

Attorney Noga Weisel, who occasionally represents pedophiles, takes advantage of the situation in favor of her clients: "I often encounter investigators who are not sufficiently well versed. There are inexperienced policemen who simply do not know how to ask the right questions or do the right investigative actions. If, for example, someone catches a girl, she should be asked exactly and not roughly all the questions, even if they are difficult, and they do not know how to ask these questions. This is the problem. And then the court listens to the recordings of the interrogations, and even if he was convinced that the person is guilty, he is often acquitted by reason of doubt or with reduced punishment. "

Thus, for example, in January 2016, the Supreme Court overturned Zalman Cohen's sentence from nine years in prison to six and a half, due to an improper investigation, and was also defined as an "investigative failure."

In another case, Haim Atar was indicted for nine cases of child rape. However, the police mistakenly copied Atar's hard disk, which contacted its victims on the Internet. Finally, a plea bargain was signed, in which the indictment was amended and Atar was convicted on three counts of sodomy and sentenced to five years in prison.

In another case, a woman complained to the police that she had posed as a mother to a girl on the Internet, and Padophil had suggested that she buy some hours with her daughter. The police operated a police agent who managed to contact the pedophile - Yaron Shaltiel. The police even managed to arrange a meeting during which the mother would ostensibly hand over her daughter to Shaltiel in return for payment, a meeting that a covert policewoman had arrived at. However, Shaltiel was eventually sentenced as part of a plea bargain to only half a year of community service. A review of the case shows that even when the initial contact with Shaltiel was made, the police erred because the police agent, who posed as a mother on the Internet, turned to Shaltiel and did not turn to him. In addition, at the crucial meeting Shaltiel visited with the policewoman, it appears that the policewoman wanted to sell her "daughter" more than Shaltiel wanted to buy her. Shaltiel told her: "I can not, as if I can not." He even suggested to the pretending "mother" to cancel the matter: "If we get off how much I bring you?"

In response, instead of canceling the meeting and trying to incriminate him in another way, the policewoman asked: "What are you stressed?" At the end of the meeting, the police arrested Shaltiel and exposed themselves, but the evidence they collected did not amount to actual incrimination. The court wrote: "The world of the Internet has created a new reality and justifies the examination and determination of punitive measures and prevention that will be suited to the legal and social confrontation in such crimes.

In another case, a boy complained that his neighbor had watched blue movies with him and raped him. But the police took testimony from the child by an interrogator who was by chance the trial officer of the accused. The court ruled that this was an omission, determined that the interrogator was certain of the accused's guilt, and acquitted the defendant. Among other things, the interrogator did not even bother to check the minor's diary, even though the latter reported it, and even the suspect's computer was not checked, although there it was possible to see the hours of viewing the blue films.

In another case, the defendant was suspected of catching a 12-year-old boy on the street, taking him to the alley and kissing him forcefully. However, even here, the interrogators' failures caused the court to acquit the defendant. It turned out that the police did not catch the photographs of the security camera of the Jerusalem light train that was stationed nearby. The reason cited by the investigator in the court is that the police turn to the company that operates the train, "only if the cases are quite exceptional ... like robbery and murder and big things."

Temptation on the net. Chet recorded during the investigation of a suspect in pedophilia

3. Focus: There is no answer

The police, however, to their credit, already understood two years ago the urgent need for professional investigation of the pedophilia cases. In 2015, a government decision was issued and the plan was launched, and all the media reported on its establishment and the new call center (105), which will be operated within the framework of which every child can call and tell about the harassment he underwent "Every third child has been exposed to threats or verbal violence on the Internet. Every fifth child is exposed to a sexual message or message and every tenth child is exposed to sexual harassment. "

The system, as determined by the government's decisions, will include an operational unit that will be able to cope with complex investigations, and a professional staff that will include no less than 22 people. And with the said focus, the total will be 130 positions.

In May, at an impressive ceremony at the Jerusalem Theater, Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan inaugurated the Ma'or system and told the audience that his office had invested no less than NIS 45 million in the past year. During the summer vacation, Alignment will operate a call center number 105, which operates 24/7 for requests and assistance. "

But the promises are one and the same. Anyone who tried to call F-105 during the summer vacation found a busy signal. Even today, three and a half months after the end of the vacation, we tried repeatedly to call HaMoked. To no avail. A brief inquiry revealed that the center did not work at all.

To our surprise, despite the fact that this is public money, the police expressed strong opposition to sharing the data with us and refused to send us a simple number that we asked for. - How many of the 130 devices that are supposed to be in the MAOR system have already been recruited?

Finally, after many correspondence with the police officers, in which they persisted in their refusal to transfer the data, we decided to find the answer ourselves.

When the numbers reached us, we understood why the police were hiding. The data revealed here for the first time, as of June this year, a month after the minister announced that the system is underway, of which only 31 of the 130 jobs were staffed. Since then no new data has been provided.

Why? Our examination indicates that this may be a lack of motivation to serve in the center and in the operative unit of the new system. The headquarters, incidentally, with its 22 men, is already manned. What causes lack of motivation? The answer is simple, as a senior official told us this week: "In general, people do not really want to serve at any police station, and this is a job with a low salary that is considered a Sisyphean.

So why are they coming down?

"What do you compare? At headquarters there are nice salaries that sometimes amount to tens of thousands of shekels."

And what about the operational unit?

"There are still dozens of positions missing, and what kind of investigators can you get there?" "Does it make sense for Lahav researchers, the police lions, to leave their jobs for an array that today receives calls from children and parents about all sorts of internet surfers?"

In the meantime, every week, a million shekels is poured on the MAUAR system, but it turns out that this money is not being diverted to the right channels at the moment. "Dr. Etzioni:" If they paid good salaries to 30 geniuses of 8200, they would catch pedophiles online. "

4. The law: a patch on the patch

Get a script of the kind you do not want to imagine: a pedophile takes your 12-year-old son or daughter to eat ice cream, spends a few hours with them and brings them home. Is this a criminal offense or not? Not in Israel. In the United States, certainly. Remember Jerry Fenton who got 40 years in prison? Twenty of them were for what is known as "Groming," a stage known to researchers of pedophilia as the stage of seduction.

Shai Schwartz, a children's researcher, explains: "An unfaithful pedophile arrives, stripping the child and harming him, otherwise it will be revealed within a second, and he wants to create a trust system between himself and the victim so that the secret element will be stronger, Tell about the damage, and the price he will pay will be high. "

A suspect in pedophilia and his lawyer (right) in remand. In the Israeli Penal Code, a significant portion of pedophilic offenses are considered minor offenses

"The pedophiles have very hard ways, because once they manage to seduce the child, for example, to be photographed and undressed, the children are already captured because they are afraid," Ronit Tzur, the national supervisor of the Child Investigations Unit, told Ynet.

So how is it that every courtship stage, groming, is not yet considered illegal in Israel?

"The issue of gromming requires a change of legislation, we know that in the matter of pedophilia there is a matter of escalation, that there is a process of familiarity and rapprochement, and then there are minor actions, and only afterwards do we reach the harms.

But Groming is not the only problem with Israeli law. As Etzioni explains: "What happens in Israel is that there is the Penal Code, which is the central criminal file, and then there are a lot of laws around, such as the law Public protection against sex offenders, and the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Law, and the Law of Returning a Offender to a Workplace, is a patchwork patch. It is time for one guiding hand to take all these patches, create something new and complete what is missing. That's exactly what they did in England in 2003: they took all the laws that talk about sex crimes and united them into one law. "

5. Rehabilitation: Instead of punishment?

But even if the entire process was carried out properly, and the time has come to sentence the defendant, during the investigation we encountered a series of lenient rulings that Israeli courts rule on sex offenders, especially those who declare their desire to rehabilitate themselves.

Avshalom Shenhar contacted a girl via Facebook and the Vetsap. He asked her to send her nude pictures. Shenhar later began video conversations with her, convinced her to meet him and asked her to sleep with him. After refusing, he threatened that if she continued to refuse, he would talk about their relationship. After the threat, he was released. In addition to her, Shenhar sexually harassed four other girls. He was convicted of these acts as detailed in the indictment, and in the District Court he was sentenced to one and a half years in prison. It was only after the State Attorney's Office was appealed that he was sentenced to three years in the Supreme Court.

"It's just crazy," one of the relatives of one of the complainants told us in tears this week. "My daughter wept for days and nights because of this stinking pervert and in the end they gave him only three years, and in some countries he would have been executed, in the United States he would have been given 50 years, what state are we in? What are we going through? "

A review of the Supreme Court's ruling indicates that one of the reasons that worsened with Shenhar was precisely to help him rehabilitate himself during his imprisonment. The reason: In Israel, a person who has been punished for at least two years finds it difficult to rehabilitate in prison for the simple reason that the only dedicated treatment that the IPS offers sex offenders is a year and eight months, and the receipt takes time. Why is there no flexibility in the treatment of sexual offenses committed by the IPS? Why is there no plan for those who are tried for a year? "

More than once, the courts choose a short prison sentence, or not to punish at all, because of the defendant's chance to rehabilitate himself outside the prison. For example, in the case of Amit Katz, whose sentence was given last December. According to the indictment, Katz was caught on his computer in which minors were exposed to him while he masturbated in front of them. But as part of a plea bargain it was decided that Katz would not want a prison sentence at all (because of his desire to rehabilitate himself).

Dr. Etzioni: "Not only do we not take these offenses seriously at the legal level, they are not taken seriously in the courts. it's embarrassing. It can not be punishable for us three or four years to deal with minors, when in the United States they commit the same offense for 20 years or more. "

In light of the fact that the courts are lenient with offenders who want to be rehabilitated, we went out to check the rehabilitation frameworks for pedophiles in Israel. We visited the Center for the Treatment of Sex Offenders whose location is secret and we even spoke with several pedophiles who underwent rehabilitation. To our amazement, we discovered that despite the fact that luxurious facilities were built and top-notch professionals were hired, there were many vacant places.

Thus, for example, a dedicated hostel built for sex offenders is now occupied only by 58 percent occupancy, and in day centers, intended to absorb masses of pedophiles, have not yet filled the ranks. In fact, in all of 2016, only 230 sex offenders came under the law for treatment, with more than two thousand matching such treatment. The reason, so we were amazed to discover: except for those who shorten one-third, there is no obligation to get treatment.

"It's a very small percentage of the pedophiles who go to or after prison treatment once they are released, whether after serving a full sentence or after serving a reduced sentence, they become a ticking bomb," Dr. Rabinowitz said, This is a badge of poverty for the State of Israel. At the moment, there is no statutory obligation to punish a convicted sex offender. "

what can we do?

"You must also make sure that a sex offender is charged with treatment, because if you imprison a criminal convicted of pedophilia and then you send him free, it will not go away on his own, and they themselves will help me save me from myself."

Adv. Chai Haber, a lawyer for several suspects in pedophilia, says: "The problem of enforcement can be solved quite easily. All you need is to be present online and locate those people. Because they do not do it secretly. At the same time, we must work with them in the therapeutic field. By taking and imprisoning them you have not solved the problem. Unfortunately no one really checks what happens after the sentence and they are not committed to treatment. And the day they leave, they continue from the same place where they were arrested. "

Advocate Chai Haber: There is no supervision

6. Inspection: one about 12?

Under the Public Protection Act, in many cases the court issues a surveillance order on sex offenders. The number of supervisors in the last few years has increased significantly, and last year there were 1,049 supervisors, and this year the number has grown to 1,218. The number of pedophiles among those under supervision is 497. The problem is that the unit budget (NIS 10 million in 2015) According to senior officials, the unit is unable to track more than three pedophiles a day.

"The supervisors are on the brink of collapse," says a former IPS official, "because they are unable to carry out surveillance, they are forced to monitor the sex offenders remotely. They asked the Ministry of Finance to make a supervisor's key in relation to the supervisors. They asked that it be one for 12, that I tell you it's not enough, because how can one inspector effectively monitor 12 offenders? After all, these are not toy criminals, some of them very sophisticated. In any case, this initiative also fell because the Ministry of Finance refused vehemently. "

As a result of the lack of manpower, pedophiles who were released from prison and were supposed to be monitored by the unit returned to normal. For example, a pedophile caught by Avi Dobitzky's pedophiles. He came to meet with someone who pretended to be a 14-year-old boy after telling him on the phone in a conversation broadcast on Channel 2. "I'm discharged from prison, I'm taking care not to go back to these things, I do not know how to digest it yet, but you're too cute and too nice. We want to kiss you and want to hug you. "

Remember, pedophilia treatment depends on their consent. According to our study, only 17 percent of the supervisors receive treatment, that is, only 85 pedophiles. The rest, 412 pedophiles, are untreated. Dr. Etzioni: "All the systems, the law, the enforcement, the police, the welfare services, all together must understand that we have a state blow here. And if we do not act together in a coordinated fashion, we will be left with thousands of ticking bombs. "

Comments

The courts said in response : "The judgments of the courts speak for themselves, and each case is judged and decided according to the evidence and circumstances that are unique to it. In random cases, even if the defendants were charged with similar offenses. "

The Ministry of Justice said in response : "The main law that regulates the means to protect the public against sexual offenses committed by sex offenders is the Protection of the Public from Sexual Offenses Law, based on dangerous preparations for sex offenders, Regarding the incrimination of the "courtship phase" in pedophilia, there is no specific offense concerning the phenomenon of groming: According to the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children from Abuse and Sexual Exploitation, Sexual assault Absorption, the appropriate sentence is examined each case depending on all the circumstances of the incident and the defendant's personal circumstances. Ultimately penalty every defendant is derived according to the professional judgment of the court ".

The Israel Police said in response : "The Ma'or system is currently being established under the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security, as a combined police-civilian network that will include headquarters units, a national focal point and a designated police unit. Within the framework of the array and for the purpose of fulfilling its mission and promoting its goals, we are working to locate and train suitable candidates for the position. The staffing of the positions is progressing according to the planning and the goals set and we are preparing as required. Any attempt to present to the public the misrepresentation that the police are not manning positions is incorrect. "