Tomorrow (Monday) the release committee at Hermon Prison is expected to discuss sex offender Alon Kastiel's request for early release.
Castiel was convicted of sexually assaulting four women.
In January 2018, the Tel Aviv District Court sentenced him to four years and nine months in prison as part of a plea bargain in attempted rape, indecent assault, indecent assault and sexual harassment.
After three years in prison the committee will consider his application, to a brother who claimed to have undergone the required treatment in prison and was given full responsibility for his actions.
The prosecutors then thought that the plea agreement was appropriate.
With regard to reducing the number of complainants from 15 to 4, they said at the time that the prosecution would file an indictment only when it is believed that there is a reasonable chance of conviction.
In early September 2016, Castiel was charged with committing serious sexual acts and was initially charged with two counts of rape.
Castiel's defense attorneys at the time, Adv. Meital Danino and Roi Belcher, then claimed that there was a statute of limitations regarding the same case since 10 years had passed since the act attributed to him.
One of the complainants asked to express her position before the committee and the defense attorney of Castiel, Adv. Rotem Tobol, expressed her consent.
Naamat's chairman, Hagit Peer, responded to the hearing tomorrow and said that "there is an apparent trend of wholesale release of sex offenders. First it was Ronen Beatty, then Moshe Ivgi and now maybe Alon Kastiel. I sincerely hope that unlike the previous two times, the prosecutor's office will "If this is the trend in cases involving well-known personalities, one can only speculate on how widespread this alarming phenomenon is in sexual offense cases in general."
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