The court ordered the house arrest imposed on the nine defendants • However, the indictment may already be decided this week

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The Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on Tuesday ordered the cancellation of nocturnal house arrest conditions imposed on the nine suspected boys of rape, group, and other sex offenses in a 14-year-old girl.

However, the court upheld the restraining order from the complainant for one month, and the prohibition on arriving in the city where the girl resides, as well as the financial guarantees. The prosecutor's office did not object to the decision, but noted that the investigation is in preparation for the termination and that Thursday it may be decided to indict. It is not yet clear whether against all involved, and what offenses.

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Recall that a week ago, after two weeks of detention and release under full house arrest, the Magistrate's Court in Rishon Lezion ordered the nine suspected boys to be released from house arrest. The court ruled that they would only stay in house arrest during the night and not all day as was the case until this hearing. They also forbade them to contact the victim for a month.

However, one of the boys appealed against a decision to the Lod District Court, which accepted his position and ordered the abolition of house arrest completely on the ground that there was no fear of disrupting an investigation. As a result of this decision, all eight of those involved were appealed and the court returned the case to the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court. It stated that the release conditions set for one were in fact compatible with each other and at this stage he did not want to set an unequal threshold. However, he ordered that if the boys or any of them violated the exclusionary conditions of the complainant or disrupted an investigation he would be arrested immediately.

Recall that last Tuesday, the court allowed partial details of a sex affair being investigated by the degradation zone police involving a group of boys and a victim of 14. Police arrested nine boys aged 15-16 and after several days in custody released them for house arrest. The girl is undergoing psychological treatments.

The investigation began following information about suspected sexual abuse by the girl from the suspects. She told her relative, and she approached the police. The case was investigated under a blanket prohibition order and allowed as partial publication in the third.

The details allowed for publication indicate that the girl knew one of the boys through a social network. Later, he knew other boys until they convinced her to meet some of them. According to the investigation, they committed a series of sexual offenses including a group offense and exploited her condition. Among other things, they threatened to distribute photos they took on social networks. After the complaint and investigation of the girl by a child investigator, police began searching for the suspects and they were arrested one after the other, nine in total. Some of them claimed the relationship was consensual.