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Police blunder: Serial rapist escapes
Avi Cohen
Published: 24.11.06, 15:05
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1. isn't it funny, tho'...
oferdesade ,   israel-where else   (11.24.06)
... how an inquiry precedes the hunt to recapture him (which isn't even mentioned). thank god we live in such a news-rich country like israel. where else would all these inquiry experts find a job.
2. What was that "toughest sentence ever" ?
gabriela ben ari ,   jerusalem   (11.24.06)
Israel "judicial" system makes a joke ana a plublic hazard out of these criminals Time to convict the judges too
3. How could this happen?
Avraham ,   Netivot   (11.24.06)
4. benny sela
sas ,   israel   (11.24.06)
once the army is caught with the pants down. now it is the police. when will we WAKE UP. It smells from the top.
5. Toughest sentence???
Elijah ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (11.24.06)
35 years for 14 rape? That's not even 2 years per rape!!! What is going on in this country? Did everyone go crazy or just me?
6. Searching ??? they couldn't find their own ***
Amazed ,   Tel Aviv   (11.24.06)
Seen in Tel Aviv this morning - police standing talking in groups of 4 and 5 under the entrances to buildings near the Weizman Street Court, and some parking their cars in the middle lane of a three-lane highway - and standing by the car doing nothing - very effective !!! A pathetic bunch of idiots ...
7. Should attach tracking device to his penis with remote
Fasulia Hudra   (11.24.06)
Should attach a tracking device to his penis with a remote detonator
8. # 4 Pants
Sagi ,   Israel   (11.24.06)
Everyone was caught with their pants down except the one who should have been, Sela. He was only caught when he pulled them back up. I would like to make an observation here. In America convicts and even accused persons standing trial are escorted into courts and back into their cell with a ball and chain attached to their leg or legs. There are two reasons for this. One is to humiliate them and the other is to prevent escape. This should be adopted in Israel, certainly in cases of violent crime.
9. I don't hear the word life-sentence!
eliza ,   Ramat gan   (11.24.06)
This idiot of an escapee needs to spend a life sentence in solitary confinement. He's no use to anyone for anything. One thing is for sure, that you do the crime, you pay the time. I hope by the time they catch this joker that he will finally get what he does deserve and not receive just a meagre 35 years for the lifetime of suffering he has caused his poor victims to whom my heart goes out to.
10. Too bad we do not have the death penalty!
jason white ,   afula,israel   (11.24.06)
For the idiot cops and sela also. We need a police force with cops having and I.Q. larger than their shoe size.
11. Israel Blunders ,Nation rapidly Disintergrates
Marcel ,   fLORIDAS   (11.24.06)
This blunder is only the tip of the iceberg. Israel insanely rewards those intent on exterminating every jew for no peace in sight. Ahudna is only a ruse to get ready for the next deadlier round. I used to think israeli's were smart ,but no longer do. You have proven to be dumber than dirt.
12. Blunder?
JP   (11.24.06)
Is that like a blooper, sopmething light hearted. This is sheer incompetance if it is happening with frequency. Lack of concern for the safety of the women and public in general. If this guy rapes while he is on hiatis, the polices should be sued and someone in the police department should be convited of negligence. Get on the ball, do your jobs please.
13. It should have been 35 years for each of 14 rapes!!!!
Fasulia Hudra   (11.25.06)
14. rapist
sas ,   country   (11.25.06)
dear mr. karadi! resign or be fired. you are a TOTAL FAILURE in everything. GO HAME n STAY THERE>
15. only in our wonderful country!
Michelle ,   TA, Israel   (11.25.06)
...and maybe in another 3rd world country can we see such an "accident" occurd by the POLICE that should keep citizens safe... But hey! Restaurants serve bad food and they behave as if customers were ennemies.Taxi/bus drivers drive as if they want to kill all passengers. Public service employees act as if they want to send you strieght to the psychiatrist...WHY WOULD THE POLICE BE DIFFERENT?! Aren't they at our service and small details like Court working hours don't matter?!! ISRAEL WAKE UP! We are on a self-destructive slope without any terrorists' help!
16. to all invovled in the escape, ie;police, prison workers
telavivit ,   israel   (11.25.06)
I hope you can all sleep at night!! Keep you wives girlfriends and daughters locked up- or they my be the next victim of rape!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you to those invovled who have put most women in Tel Aviv in to confinment!!!!!!!!! IDIOTS- it should not have happened- I want answers NOW
17. elija # 5
charles ,   petach tikva   (11.25.06)
You got crazy , go back to school . 35 years for 14 rapes , that's not even 2 years per rape !!!! you wrote . That's 2 years and 6 months . Not enough of course .
18. Gabriela
charles ,   petach tikva   (11.25.06)
for 14 rape and sexual assaults ... Before critisizing this sentence , do you know what were the "sexual assaults" , maybe only touching a girls back ? I do'nt know . In any case , if he raped "only" [ much to much already ] one woman , 14 years is not enough . You have to respect every woman , regardless how provocative she is : DO NOT TOUCH I suppose that on this matter you agree with me ?
19. To Michelle TA
charles ,   petach tikva   (11.25.06)
No dear Michelle , not only here or in 3rd world countries . It happened some years ago in France , a very dangerous hold uper and murderer . Also in Belgium one with the same records . And those countries are not 3rd world i think
20. I really don't think there is a country
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (11.26.06)
In the world that gives a rat's --- about rape, if it comes to that. They'll make a big deal prosecution if they can make political hey of it, but on the whole, it's a crime that they just don't care about.
21. Dorothy
charles ,   Petach tikva   (11.26.06)
You are wrong Dorothy , in Europe , rape and child molesting is taken seriously . Here too . I refrain from giving a women a compliment [ you look very nice ,or so ], it could be taken as "sexual harrassement" If someone , in the police or prison's personal , has helped him , this will certainly be discovered because the Israeli people wants and pushes for the thrut in such a case . Do not see political influence in everything .
22. I remember the British Judge
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (11.26.06)
who let off a man that raped a four year old because she was enticing. Was all over the BBC World Service a couple of years ago. Rape sentencing has a lot to do with race, politics, economic standing and religion. Minority groups, here there everywhere inevitably get a lighter sentence when the rape a woman of their "own" than if they rape a woman of the majority. Rapists are given community service as part of plea bargins -- a few years ago an American rapist served his time by coaching a girls high school basketball team. In Israel about a decade ago, a gyn who raped his patients did 6 months in a medical library. Discovering God helps, too. Mike Tyson had his sentence cut when he became a devout Muslim (pre 9/11, of course) and the infamous Israeli "Polite Rapist" had his sentence cut from 30 years to 10 when he became a born again Jew.
23. dorothy
charles ,   petach tikva   (11.26.06)
I think that today it's taken more seriously . Look what happens to "sex tourists" , child abusers and so today . You know , good lawyers can do something [ you know this story ? a man was convinced for murdering his parents . His lawyer asked mercy for this poor orphan . ]
24. #23
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (11.26.06)
Is and isn't. This case certainly shows that not everyone takes it seriously. Didja know that the man who raped "Miss Israel" some years ago had raped before? The cops in the station who were FRIENDS of his, badgered the victim into not pressing charges. Was in the Jerusalem Post at the time (that's after Miss Israel was raped). And as I said, the "Polite Rapist" was pardoned when he became a born again Jew by President Herzog.
25. Dorothy
charles ,   Petach tikva   (11.26.06)
Listen Dorothy , those are older cases i think . As i made Alya in 2001 i'm not aware of them , but believe you . In my birth country , Belgium , there are specialised police men and women , who look at such complaints . Those are always taken very seriously [ sometimes even when false accusations happen ] and punished in the right way . Justice is also in evolution , I suppose also here . I do not accept that a man says "she provoked me" . For me it's always : do'nt touch [ without permission ! ] and certainly not a younger child .
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