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A prostitute on a south Tel Aviv street, January
1, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)
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Four
members of a so-called messianic group have been arrested on charges of
kidnapping young women and forcing them into prostitution, Israeli police said
Sunday, Times of Israel reports.
According
to the charges, the group would control women with a combination of drugs,
alcohol and heavy brainwashing techniques and convince them to have sex in
exchange for money, often while under the influence of drugs.
Police
allege that the girls were taught that “lying with non-Jews would hasten the
redemption” of the Jewish people and that by having sex with non-Jews, the
girls would purify them and bring back their “holy sparks” to Israel.
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A view of the settlement of Kiryat Arba, in the
southern West Bank, adjoining the city of Hebron. (photo credit: Michal
Fattal/Flash90)
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The
four-month investigation of the group, referred to by police as a “messianic
sect,” began after an initial complaint that members of the group were working
the streets in an attempt to coerce young women to join them and become more
religious, and ultimately received the assistance of the Shin Bet security
service.
The suspects were two
men, a 60-year old from Kiryat Arba and 47-year-old from Ashkelon, and two
women, a 40-year old from Kiryat Arba and a 39-year old from Jerusalem. Over
the course of the investigation, police say, they discovered that the group was
active throughout the country.
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