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4 years imprisonment for a psychiatric hospital security guard who committed sexual offenses at the age of 13
The case took place in January when 23-year-old Sharfi Shroff committed sodomy on a hospital in Tirat Carmel Hospital. In the murder of Yael Melnik
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Sexual offenses
Acts of Sodom
Tirat HaCarmel
psychiatry
Yoav Itiel
Thursday, 04 November 2021, 07:00 Updated: 08:37
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In the video: The arrest of the suspect in the murder of Yael Little Melnik has been extended, his name has been released (Photo: Yoav Itiel)
The Haifa District Court yesterday (Wednesday) sentenced Rafi Shroff, 23, of Isfahan, a security guard at the Ma'ale HaCarmel psychiatric hospital in Tirat Carmel, to four years in prison, after committing sexual offenses in a 13-year-old hospital in January. Brother Edward Kachura, the suspect in the murder of Yael Melnik is hospitalized at the age of 17.
"It is not disputed that the defendant's actions are serious," the panel of judges ruled.
Justices Yechiel Lifshitz, Galit Ziegler and Shmuel Mandelbaum mentioned that this was someone who, during his work as a security guard at the hospital, developed a sexual, forbidden and criminal relationship with the girl who was hospitalized there, knowing her age.
The events took place in January this year, the affair was first published in Walla!
And the identity of the security guard was then allowed for publication.
According to the indictment, the relationship began with the sending of a sexual image by the girl, following which a conversation of a sexual nature took place between the two.
Later, his actions "took a step up" and he committed sodomy on her inside the hospital, on two occasions within two days, and these offenses were accompanied by indecent acts, as he had sexually explicit phone conversations with the girl on several occasions during that month.
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Ma'ale HaCarmel Hospital (Photo: Walla !, from Wikipedia)
Police have investigated Shroff for improper relations with four girls.
Only towards one did the suspicions mature into an indictment.
This is the same ward in which brother Edward Kachura, who is suspected of murdering Yael Melnik, a 17-year-old hospitalized man, also worked against him.
"The data that the defendant owes is clear," said the tribunal's father, Judge Yechiel Lifshitz, who wrote the sentence. During the trial, he claimed that Shroff "developed feelings towards the girl and had intentions to develop a relationship with her." Lifshitz mentioned that this is not a "one-time stumble," but a series of actions. He emphasized that it was a young girl and that the acts were carried out in a mental health center, when the girl was hospitalized at the place where the young man served as a security guard. "This latest combination of data gives the case before us its remaining severity, even in relation to other cases," he stated. "He knew it was a mental background. Therefore, strong that he knew about its fragility and the need for a closed, safe, isolated and supportive framework. Instead of fulfilling his role as a security guard on the spot, he exploited it to satisfy his passions, ignored all the data given above, and criminally exploited the approach given. To her, her young age and her many problems. " Judge Lifshitz stressed: "The fact that she initiated part of the relationship and even 'agreed'To him, there is no agreement. "
In the end, the girl is the one who shared with a staff member at the hospital what happened, believing it was another inpatient.
The employee handed the report to the hospital management who unloaded the security cameras and realized that it was a security guard.
A complaint was filed with the police.
The acts were committed in the same ward in which another patient was murdered.
Yael Melnik (Photo: Walla !, Facebook)
Shroff was interrogated at the Tirat Carmel station where he admitted to having sex with the girl, and was released. He was later summoned for questioning, and arrested. An indictment was filed in February. Even before the evidentiary phase began, he confessed to the acts through his defense attorney, Adv. Michael Carmel. The
prosecution sought to sentence the security guard to six to ten years in prison. "It will be emphasized that if it were not for the defendant's confession and all the other data available to him, including his participation in a treatment procedure, his sentence would have been heavier and longer," Judge Yechiel Lifshitz clarified.
The girl's mother described to the court severe feelings of insecurity and mistrust in the frameworks of care and supervision since those events, for as she said, the injury was in a place that was supposed to provide her daughter with care, supervision and protection. The mother added: "The incident was experienced for the family as traumatic, and since the injury the parents feel the need to look after their daughter closely, and this leads to family tensions and difficulties."
A review of the girl's case was submitted to the court stating that the abusive sexual relationship was prolonged and left her with scars and damages that characterize sexual victims in general and children in particular. The girl told the editor of the survey that she had lost faith in caregivers and authority figures, and had even lost faith in her family and people in general.
Shroff told the judges: "I'm very sorry I hurt the girl and I'm ashamed. I also did shame to my family. I gave everything I could to recover and I want to recover. I ask that I can continue my life properly after I recover."
He performed sodomy inside the hospital, on two occasions within two days (Photo: Flash 90, David Cohen)
In addition to the actual prison sentence, the judges also sentenced Rafi Shroff to a suspended sentence of 12 and eight months for three years, and also ruled that he would pay the girl compensation in the amount of NIS 40,000.
It should be emphasized that Ma'ale HaCarmel Hospital has been in the process of preparing for unification into the director of the psychiatric ward at the Human Health Medical Campus, Rambam in Haifa, a move that is estimated to happen in 2022. One of the barriers is the insistence of the Ministry of Health Dr. Eyal Fruchter, who is also the director of Rambam's psychiatric department, on proper standards in the health professions such as psychology, social work and occupational therapy. A senior health official told Walla! "This standard is not properly regulated in all psychiatric wards in Israel and means "According to him, the director general of the ministry, Nachman Ash, has approved the process and the standard and is now only waiting for the approval of the Ministry of Finance."
The acting director, Dr. Eyal Fruchter, said that "intensive activity is being carried out at the hospital to detect suspicious signs and signs of inappropriate behavior among employees to ensure the safety and health of patients and prevent the recurrence of such cases in the future." In general, the hospital's employees are dedicated and very committed to medical ethics and patients. "
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