ISRAEL
YNet News
Roi Yanovsky|Published: 08.12.16
David Harrison, a former rabbi at a religious girls’ high school, was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of raping one of his students when she was 14-years old.
The student, who is 20 today, arrived at a police station in Jerusalem a few days ago and filed a complaint against the educator.
Harrison, aged 58 from Jerusalem, worked at Ulpanat Beit Shlomit between the years 2007-2010. He is suspected of committing serious sexual offenses against the teenage girl—including rape—while he was working at the school that the girl attended.
Upon receiving the complaint, police launched an investigation, gathering testimonies from Harrison’s family members and officials at the school, among others. The police said the testimonies support the girl’s version.
According to a police official, the alleged offenses were committed both inside and outside the school. Harrison allegedly raped the girl several times, and allegedly hit her when she tried to resist him.
Harrison was fired from the school a year after the alleged offenses were committed, but school officials said the dismissal was unrelated to the suspicions, which they were not aware of at the time.
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