ynet Teacher from
ultra-Orthodox school left the Netherlands for Israel after 16-year-old
students tells parents teacher sexually assaulted him; Israeli courts to
now deliberate on his extradition to Holland.
A Dutch Jewish teacher
suspected of sexually abusing children has been arrested in Tel Aviv
earlier this week, two years after the Netherlands asked for his
extradition, the Dutch Telegraaf reported on Thursday.
The teacher, 28, has
been in Israel for three years. He was arrested on Monday and was
brought to a remand extension hearing at the Jerusalem District Court
the next day.
According to reports in
the Netherlands, the suspect was born to a Reformist family in Amsterdam
and became more observant a few years ago. He attended a yeshiva in
Jerusalem, while teaching at a private school of languages in central
Israel. In 2010, the suspect returned to the Netherlands, where he
started working at the Cheider School in Amsterdam - a prestigious
ultra-Orthodox institution that includes a kindergarten, a primary
school and a high school.
In 2012, a 16-year-old
student told his parents that the teacher sexually assaulted him in a
side room. The parents turned to the school but were ignored, so they
turned to the media. The school - where 200 children aged 2-18 study -
said it "held a clarification conversation with the teacher."
That year, other students at the school, younger than 10, started suffering symptoms of anxiety, and a doctor who examined them raised the suspicion that they were also sexually abused. It was only at that point that a police investigation was launched.
The reports, published in the popular newspaper Telegraaf, embarrassed many in the Jewish community in the Netherlands and led to great public pressure for the school's administration to join the police complaint. [...]
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