Rehovot teacher indicted for having sex with student
State files illicit sexual relations charges against woman, intimidation and obstruction of justice charges against her husband; asks court to revoke her teaching license
The Central District Prosecutor's Office filed charges of illicit sexual relations against a Rehovot high school teacher suspected of having sex with one of her 17-year-old students.
The State further filed charges against the woman's husband, for intimidation and obstruction of justice. The prosecution also asked the court to rescind the woman's teaching license.
According to the indictment, filed with the Rehovot Magistrate's Court on Monday, the teacher and her student became involved after she took an interest in his studies.
The bond formed soon became intimate, and the two allegedly began meeting in a secluded filed in one of the moshavim on the outskirts of the city, or in a nearby guesthouse.
Other sexual encounters, said the prosecution, took place at the beach, the teacher's offices and at another student's house.
The other student, made privy to the relationship, apparently videoed the two using her cell-phone camera. Once rumors about the affair began circulating, alleged the State, both students were invited to the teacher's house, where she and her husband instructed them to deny the rumors.
The husband then instructed the boy's friend to erase the videos from her cell phone. When he later learned she did not deny the rumors suggesting his wife and the boy were having an affair, he threatened her.
The Central District Prosecution claims to have a solid case against the teacher.
Attorney Yael Azmon, for the State, told the court the prosecution intends to enter into evidence detailed affidavits by the both students, tapes of confrontations between the parties and several testimonies by other students who saw the cell-phone video.
