The "College" affair, in which young women were sexually abused in an apartment in Tel Aviv, raises questions about the ways in which the suspects managed to attract the victims to that apartment.
In an interview with 103FM, Walla's reporter, Erez Harel, explained the horrifying reality to which the young women were exposed: "They testify that they were in a 'sophisticated trap,' a mechanism that normalized the serious sexual injuries and brutal acts of rape they were subjected to."
Before arriving at the same apartment in south Tel Aviv, the women would go to the nearby "taboo" club, a BDSM club, which initially meant that the boundaries seemed blurred.
"In the same apartment they allegedly lived a community life of free and healthy sexuality in light of the BDS scene. The complainants who left the place describe it completely differently," said Harel.
He said about those women, "who came out of great curiosity and a desire to investigate the same scene, and they meet the group of men there, among them Nissan Gevni, whose name is known as some sort of expert."
He added that "the women described how they needed some kind of family group, and almost all of them had experienced severe sexual abuse in the past. According to their opinion, this greatly influenced the circumstances in which they arrived at the scene."
"Almost all of them experienced severe sexual abuse even before the events."
Club "Taboo" Tel Aviv/Reuven Castro
The lawyer representing the complainants, attorney Galia Shmilovich, who was also interviewed for the program, told about the complexity of that case: "It looks from the outside as if because these are famous people, club owners, they also have a kind of recognition within this world, as if they have the He knew how to manage this thing," she explained. "In this situation it is very easy to create an influence, which subjects young women into a situation that is already very, very difficult to get out of
." ", she said. "Since the suspects are really standing on stage in the club, conducting concerts, and many times when a young woman receives a spotlight and is invited to be part of some powerful group, the same situation arises of 'maybe this is how it should be, maybe I don't understand something, maybe this thing is
"Whatever it's supposed to be.
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Some of them because of a personal situation, captives within this mechanism for many months."
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