Ronen Beatty, the father of singer Adi Beatty who was convicted of committing sexual offenses with his daughter’s fans, was sentenced today (Sunday) to 20 months in prison, after the court accepted the prosecution’s appeal, which appealed the lightness of the previous sentence – nine months of community service.
The court accepted our appeal and increased Ronen Beatty’s sentence to 20 months in prison. The defendant, the father of the singer Adi Beatty, took advantage of the trust placed in him by the minors, his daughter’s fans, in order to commit various sexual offenses against them. “His actions are extremely serious, both due to the exploitation of exceptional power gaps between him and the minors and due to the large number of minors he harmed, for a long time and on many occasions,” the prosecution said.
It was also stated that the court ruling from today is important and sends a double message: First, a clear and deterrent message to potential sex offenders who choose to commit sexual offenses on minors. Secondly, he informed the victims of the offense, in this case and in general, that their cooperation with the law enforcement agencies is of crucial importance in order to enable the execution of these offenses. “
Advocate and social worker Liron Eshel, director of the Child Victim Support Center at the Child Welfare Council, who accompanied one of the injured minors, welcomed the aggravation of the sentence: “The court today looked at the victims and corrected the difficult message conveyed to the victims of crime, And for society as a whole with the mitigating sentence given by the Magistrate’s Court in Kfar Saba.
The court has an important role to play in conveying an unequivocal and clear message in relation to the seriousness of sexual offenses against minors and the necessary and uncompromising punishment that must be imposed in such cases. It is up to those brave and courageous boys and girls who expose sexual abuse to know that there is a law and there is a law and there are those who see and hear them. “