The court accepts the police request and extends the arrest of psychologist Idan Kosovsky by 6 days • This is his second arrest on suspicion of sexual offenses

• Psychologist Idan Kosovsky extending his detention // Photo: Michelle Dot Com

The Magistrate's Court in Hadera again extended the arrest of psychologist Idan Kosovsky on Thursday. This time his arrest was extended by six days. Kosovsky is suspected of committing sex offenses in minors treated by him as a therapist.

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Kosovsky, a child psychologist with a private clinic in Zichron Yaacov, was arrested on Sunday this week on suspicion of committing sex offenses in minors, taking advantage of his access to them as part of his work. He is alleged to have sexually assaulted two minors who were being treated. The two minors filed a complaint against him at the Zichron Yaacov regime. On Monday, his arrest was extended by three days, and today the police again requested to extend his arrest. The police representative said at the hearing that since his arrest, suspicions against him have intensified. She presented Judge Ehud Kaplan with an opinion from a pediatric investigator, which stated that minor complaints were credible.

Suspected child sex psychologist // Photo: Newsenders

The affair began at the end of October this year, when Kosovsky was arrested for the first time in an investigation conducted at the Be'er Sheva station. As part of the investigation, suspicions of sexual offenses rose in the number of minors from southern Israel several years ago. However, at the end of the investigation he was released. As part of the investigation in Beersheba, the Supreme Court allowed the publication of the suspect's identity, including his suspicions, which led to the development and filing of new complaints at the Zichron Yaacov station, which led to the opening of a new investigation.

Kosovsky's attorneys, lawyers Samuel Barzani and Gidi Dvir, denied his suspicions on his behalf, claiming that this was a plot and that the new complaints against him were the result of incitement against Kosovsky following the investigation in Beersheba.