Disabled woman raped, robbed at knife-point inside TA house
Suspect to be brought for remand extension hearing on Thursday; case remains mostly under gag order.
By BEN HARTMANTel Aviv CBS anti-African demo_370(photo credit: Ben Hartman)
A disabled woman was raped and robbed at knife-point inside her house last week in Tel Aviv, a court cleared for publication on Wednesday.Police say the suspect, who was arrested over the weekend, is an Eritrean man who is due to be brought before a judge for a remand extension on Thursday morning.Further details about the case remain under a gag order, including where in Tel Aviv the woman lives.In March in south Tel Aviv’s Hatikva neighborhood, a burglar broke into a house and sexually assaulted an 8-yearold girl and stabbed her mother, before he was fought off and badly beaten by the woman’s husband.That case happened a few months after a man was arrested for raping an 83-year-old woman in the courtyard of her apartment building near the city’s central bus station. That case, like the one this week, was kept under a gag order by police, and when the story emerged, it was met with protests by neighborhood residents calling for Israel to remove African migrants from the neighborhood.A similar protest was held last week in Tel Aviv after police reported that a Sudanese man had been arrested for the rape of a 17- year-old female tourist in the public bathrooms at the city’s Banana Beach earlier this month.
