68-year-old Massoud Yaakobi committed indecent acts with knife threats on an 11-year-old boy at the beginning of the shocking affair • For about three years he carried out his plot in a side room of a synagogue where the two used to pray.
He stabbed a kitchen knife in the throat and threatened to kill him.
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Oren Ben Hakon
The Be'er Sheva District Court sentenced Masoud Yaakobi, 68, to 11 years in prison, who was convicted of committing numerous sexual offenses over a period of 3 years against an 11-year-old minor in a synagogue in Ashdod.
According to the charges, the defendant was convicted of committing offenses of sodomy in aggravated circumstances, indecent acts, attempted act of sodomy, dismissal in interrogation and more.
The verdict states that Yaakobi, who used to pray in the synagogue and volunteered to distribute the food, committed sodomy and indecent acts on the minor, on various occasions, from the age of 11 to the age of 14, while they were in the synagogue.
Yaakobi usually committed the acts in an inner room next to the kitchen in the synagogue, and after threatening the minor with a kitchen knife that he stuck to his throat, he would not tell anyone about the acts, otherwise he would kill him.
Yaakobi stopped the acts only after the minor moved to pray in another synagogue.
At the sentencing stage, Advocate Racheli Atias of the Southern District Attorney's Office petitioned for an appropriate sentence ranging from 25-20 years of actual imprisonment, noting that the defendant blatantly exploited the minor's arrival to pray in the synagogue, a sacred place that was supposed to be safe and protected for The minor and took advantage of being a volunteer instead of carrying out his plot cynically and rudely.
The district court imposed, as stated, on the defendant 11 years of actual imprisonment, probation and compensation in the amount of NIS 100,000 per complainant.
The sentence stated that "the imposition of a long and prolonged imprisonment will be significant in light of the defendant's advanced age ... there can be no doubt that these are offenses that expressed cruelty to a minor over a number of years. "To the fact ... that this is a weak defendant, who tried to explain his actions in completely unacceptable and unreasonable explanations in a way that testified to his weakness."
