A shocking case of child sexual abuse within a family: Three relatives are accused of committing sex offenses against a young family member over two years, starting when he was 10. The indictment includes disturbing details.
According to the indictments, filed by the Cyber Department of the State Attorney’s Office with the Tel Aviv District Court on June 25, the boy’s grandmother, grandfather and aunt would abuse him as a “sexual amusement” and even did so together with other relatives, who are also suspects in the case. The offenses were committed on several occasions, during which the family members touched the boy’s genitals while laughing in apparent enjoyment.
The defendants documented some of the offenses they committed and distributed them to family members; Illustration
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The defendants also filmed themselves on their mobile phones while committing some of the offenses attributed to them, and some of the videos they recorded were sent by them to a family WhatsApp group. Several of the videos were saved on relatives’ mobile phones.
The indictments charge the defendants with indecent acts against a minor family member, abuse of a minor or helpless person and offenses involving the use of a minor’s body to create obscene publications by a person responsible for the minor. Along with the indictments, prosecutors asked the court to keep the defendants in custody until the end of the legal proceedings against them.
The investigation began as part of a broader, ongoing case conducted by Unit 105 at Lahav 433 against numerous suspects from across the country for sexually assaulting minors, including their family members. As part of the investigation, several indictments have already been filed by the Cyber Department at the State Attorney's Office.
As part of the investigation, 12 people were arrested and interrogated in Unit 105 over the past year on suspicion of possessing and distributing sexually explicit materials about children. Some were suspected of sexually assaulting their own children, and of documenting the rape and indecent acts they committed.