On video: 7 years in prison for a gynecologist who committed sexual offenses on female patients in his clinic (Yoav Itiel)
An indictment was filed today (Thursday) against the psychotherapist Yariv Cohen of Ibn Yehuda for committing sexual offenses on some of his patients while under the guise of treating them.
Cohen is charged with eight charges including indecent acts, some without consent and fraudulently, with the first charge also including rape and sodomy.
The indictment shows that between 2017-2022, Yariv worked as a therapist in "physical psychotherapy", which included treating crises, mental distress and emotional disorders through talk therapy that combines techniques of physical contact, breathing, movement, meditation and more.
During the conversational treatment, the patients revealed intimate details of their personal lives, concerns, fears and the problems that brought them to seek treatment to Yariv.
Yariv used to gain the trust of the patients, among other things, by, in conversations of a sexual nature with the patients, he asked them to share with him details from their sex lives, he shared his personal sexual experience and details about the sex lives of other patients.
Eight charges are attributed to him.
Yariv Cohen (photo: official website, from Facebook)
In order to perform the body treatments, Yariv ordered the patients to take off their clothes and remain dressed only in underwear, lie on the treatment bed and cover themselves with a sheet.
The patient who asked to remain clothed used to be told that it would interfere with the treatment and make it difficult for him to achieve a result.
Later in the treatment, Yariv performed sexual acts on female patients, taking advantage of the weaknesses revealed to him during the treatments and while presenting a false representation that the sexual contact was necessary for the purpose of the treatment.
In some of the treatments, Yariv performed massages on the patients that involved touching and massaging, among other things, intimate organs, without the consent of the patients and in some cases despite their objections.
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