Prosecutors expected to demand long jail sentence; indictment refiled following outcry when Yarin Sherf initially charged with lighter offense of forbidden consensual relationship
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The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Sunday approved upgrading to rape the charges against a man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl in a state-operated quarantine hotel in February. He had previously been indicted only on the charge of a forbidden consensual relationship, as well as other lesser offenses.
The unusual change to the indictment followed an outcry against the initial charges filed in April against Yarin Sherf, after which the mother of the alleged victim said she felt as though her daughter had been raped again.
Sherf, 21, was at first indicted at Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on charges of prohibited consensual relations, sexual harassment, making threats, assault, and giving an intoxicating drink to a minor.