The State Attorney’s Office announced that Acting State Attorney will reconsider the decision not to charge Yarin Sharaf with rape. This, following inquiries received by Acting State Attorney Amit Isman, regarding the charge sheet attributed to Sharaf, who is accused of sexual offenses against a minor 13 years old in the Corona Hotel.
Attorney Isman is expected to hold an urgent hearing headed by him regarding the affair early next week, along with the relevant parties to the matter.
The chairman of the Committee for the Advancement of Women and Gender Equality, MK Oded Forer (Yisrael Beiteinu), said in response to the announcement of the re-examination of the charges of Yarin Sharaf: “I welcome the decision of the State Attorney to re-examine the indictment To be charged with sexual offenses against a 13-year-old girl in a Corona lodge. A situation must not be tolerated in which the defendant gives the minor alcohol, threatens her, sexually assaults her and is eventually charged with a reduced section. Violence is not fought with compassion. Violence is fought hard! “
I welcome the decision of the Acting State Attorney to re-examine the indictment attributed to the accused of sexual offenses against a 13-year-old girl in the Corona Hotel.
It should not be put up with a situation where the defendant gives the minor alcohol, threatens her, sexually assaults her and is eventually charged with a reduced section.
Violence is not fought with compassion. Violence is fought hard!– oded forer Oded Forer (@oded_forer) March 12, 2021
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Yesterday, the Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment against Sharaf, 21, in the city’s Magistrate’s Court, for unlawful consensual intercourse, sexual harassment, threats, assault and supply of intoxicating liquor to a minor. The offenses were committed by the defendant against a 13-year-old minor in a designated hotel of the Ministry of Welfare for Corona patients in Tel Aviv.
The minor’s mother and attorney Amit Haddad, from the Haddad Roth Shenhar law firm, representing the family, said ahead of the hearing: “This is rape, and any other interpretation is sinful to the truth. Worse, this decision gives the green light and prepares for the next rape. “On the one hand, the indictment points to violence against a 13-year-old girl, and on the other hand, it speaks of a husband who is prohibited by consent, illogical and unthinkable.
The indictment, filed by attorney Ravit Shafir, states that Sharaf met a 13-year-old minor, who had also arrived at the motel for solitary confinement, several days earlier at the beginning of his stay in the motel. There was no prior acquaintance between the two.
Later, he approached her through his Instagram account and offered her to sit with him and others on the porch and later suggested she go up to her room. When the minor realized that it was a 21-year-old guy, she replied with her words: “You are too big.” Sharaf then asked her age and she revealed to him that she was 14 years old.
Later, the minor agreed to sit with Sharaf and other minors in the sitting area on the balcony. During that evening, the 21-year-old addressed the minor with repeated offers of a sexual nature, and when she did not accede to his requests, he threatened her that he would make her “the Eilat affair 2”. In addition, the defendant provided the minor and another minor with vodka, and offered the minor to provide her with marijuana and she agreed. He turned to the minor again during the night on several more occasions and asked to go up to her room even though the minor had written to him not to go up today because she was tired, and asked him to “release” him.
The next afternoon, the two sat in the sitting area on the porch. A guide in a motel who noticed them together, turned to Sharaf and asked him not to approach the minor and ordered him to immediately stop the conversation with her, given the significant age gap between them. Immediately and immediately, the minor went up to her room on the third floor of the motel. The defendant went up to the minor’s room and suddenly noticed that the guide was following him up the stairs. Defendant told the guide “What do you think, that I should do something with a 14-year-old girl? What, I’m missing someone to fuck” ?, and went back downstairs.
He then wrote to the minor to come down. In response, the minor replied that he would go up to her room. The defendant went up to her room and the two had sex, with the defendant believing that the minor was 14 years old. During the incident, the defendant asked the minor to perform oral sex on him. When she refused, the defendant slapped her hard. In response, the minor confronted him saying he would not dare to do so again, and the defendant apologized for his actions.
A few hours after the incident, the minor sent Sharaf a picture of herself and in response the defendant informed her that he was coming to her room. The minor replied, “No, not now. I want to be alone.” Despite the aforesaid, Sharaf went up to the minor’s room and knocked on her door. The minor pulled down her window curtain, and when she noticed it, she opened the door. He entered the room and the two had sex again. At the end of the incident, a guide knocked on the door of the room, and upon entering the room, he located Sharaf hiding in the bathroom.
In the request for detention until the end of the proceedings, Adv. Shafir noted: “The respondent took advantage of the power gap between him and the minor, and despite his insight into his very young age, did not stop his actions until he obtained his request. “The respondent refused to accept his rejection, and stubbornly and while exerting pressure on the minor, he repeatedly referred to her repeated sexual offers, and did not stop also initially expressing to her explicitly her unwillingness to do so.”