Haaretz The Jerusalem Rabbinic Court allegedly ignored evidence of serious sex crimes perpetrated by a teacher in an ultra-Orthodox elementary school for boys, Haaretz has learned.
The police found out about the alleged crimes only 18 months after the religious court was first informed of them, and indicted the teacher last month.
The teacher, Gil Goren, 45, lived and taught in a settlement in the northern West Bank. In 2010 a soldier living in the community said that Goren had raped him when he was a teen, but initially refused to file a police complaint. [....]
The police found out about the alleged crimes only 18 months after the religious court was first informed of them, and indicted the teacher last month.
The teacher, Gil Goren, 45, lived and taught in a settlement in the northern West Bank. In 2010 a soldier living in the community said that Goren had raped him when he was a teen, but initially refused to file a police complaint. [....]
Nir Alfasa, the Public Defender's Office attorney representing Goren, said the evidence in the case was "old and very shaky by the time the rabbinic court was made aware of it and therefore the police were not involved, since the complaint was made anonymously."
Alfasa said his client would respond to the charges in court and that for the past two years "harmful behavior had not repeated itself."
Alfasa said his client would respond to the charges in court and that for the past two years "harmful behavior had not repeated itself."