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Two suspected pedophiles arrested in ultra-Orthodox J'lem neighborhood
By Jonathan Lis
Tags: Israel news, ultra-Orthodox 

Police remanded two men Wednesday suspected of more than 20 sexual attacks on young boys in an ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood. One of the two, a 17-year-old, is suspected of attacking an 11-year-old boy who lives in the neighborhood.

The case came to light after the head of the yeshiva where the alleged victim studies told the boy's father six months ago that boy had told him an older boy had accosted him on the bus. The boy said the 17-year-old persuaded him the get off the bus with him, took him to the yeshiva where the older boy studies and molested him in the bathroom.

On the basis of the principal's allegations, the father filed a complaint with the police. On Tuesday, after the boy told his father he saw his alleged attacker on the street, the father called the police, who arrested the suspect. He confessed to nine other attacks on neighborhood boys.
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Meanwhile, in the same neighborhood, a 43-year-old man was arrested and remanded Wednesday for molesting boys in recent years. Two teenage boys who complained that the man had molested them said he had attacked at least 10 boys, some of them allegedly friends of his children.

The suspect's attorney, Kobi Segal, said his client denied the allegations. Durng his remand hearing, the man said the complaints against him came from neighborhood people who were persecuting him because he led a more liberal lifestyle than others in the quarter.

During the hearing, the suspect presented polygraph results which he said he had taken of his own accord, and that he said he passed.

Police said Wednesday, in contrast to the statements of the suspect's lawyer, suspicions about the man had grown stronger over the past few days, and additional complainants have come forward since his arrest.
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