Police investigate alleged rape of 9-year-old boy in Holon

According to child's testimony, older man forced him into showers of local country club, told him not to resist; suspect given conditional release while investigation frozen due to social workers' strike over working conditions
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Police opened an investigation on Monday into the suspected rape of a 9-year-old boy at the Holon country club.
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    • The boy's mother filed a police complaint over the weekend, saying the incident took place on Wednesday when she sent her son to take a shower in the club's locker room and then reported seeing the boy leaving the shower with a stranger in his 50s or 60s ten minutes later.
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    In an online forum of Holon residents, the mother wrote that when she asked her son what happened, he said that an older man walked with him into the showers, put a hand across his mouth and told him that if he says anything – it will be "very bad."
    "From a mother's pain and out of concern for privacy I will not go into more details, but I am sure you can imagine this horror scenario," she wrote, adding that she shared this story in order to prevent further such incidents from happening again.
    It was reported that the mother arrived at the country club's management offices immediately after the event and managed to find out the identity of the man through security camera footage of him walking out of the showers.
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    Since there are no cameras inside the showers for the sake of privacy, there was no recording of the incident – and at this stage, the investigation is relying on the child's testimony.
    The child has yet to be questioned by a juvenile investigator due to a nationwide social workers' strike over working conditions.
    The suspect was interrogated by police and later released under restrictions and barred from the country club for the next two weeks.
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    About the heinous raping of innocent children
    Regarding the whopping number of pedophiles who in the Roman Catholic Church earn their living by exercising the priestly profession, on one occasion the Pope said that we must condemn sin but that we must forgive the sinner, since according to the Lord's Prayer for the Father to forgive our debts we must also forgive our debtors. And for once I completely agree with him. Pederasty must be condemned without palliation and the sinner must be forgiven, that is, he must not be condemned to death, sent to prison, excluded from social treatment, or even separated from children that so greedily he wants to rape. What the community must to do is convert him to the true religion whose existence he did not know: that of respect for minors. Conversion will be achieved with the quick and painless excision of the testicles, which will be returned to him in a small receptacle so that he can continue taking them with him everywhere.
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    The Priestly Sanctification of Children
    No Catholic priest has ever acknowledged having committed a crime after anally penetrating a child, not even a 2-year-old baby, as a Chilean priest did. All claimed to be unaware that such behaviors were a sin or crime if carried out by a priest. On the contrary, they said that by touching them with the same hands that hold the flesh and blood of Christ at Holy Mass, they were sanctifying the children they had selected, and leading them to the kingdom of heaven, just as Jesus Christ himself taught, because it is written: "And they were bringing even their babies to him so that he would touch them, but when the disciples saw it, they began rebuking them. But Jesus called for them, saying, “Permit the children to come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of god belongs to such as these. Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of god like a child will not enter it at all.”" Luke 18-15-17, (also Matthew 19:13-14 and Mark 10:13-16). Some hinted that god's words are eternal and cannot be replaced by the changing civil laws.
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    So the pervert is looking for another child????
    This isn't a 'social worker' issue, this is a CRIMINAL issue and the cops are wrong in letting this guy stay out of jail. And this is just because the mother was alert. How many other times has this happened?
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