Nine days after the arrest of Israel Moshe Eisenbach, 36, a resident of the city of Beit Shemesh on suspicion of committing a serious act against a girl in his city and a boy in the city of Modi'in Illit, the Attorney General's Office today (Thursday) submitted a statement of claim to the court - in preparation for filing an indictment against him.
This is not the first time Eisenbach has run into the police. 11 years ago, in 2008, he was indicted for harming nine children, after he lured children and carried out his plot against them in many places, including a synagogue, a mikveh, and a yeshiva.
Eisenbach served several years in prison and was released not long ago, while he is under the supervision of the Prison Service's Tzur unit, and is marked as a highly dangerous person.
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But that didn't stop him from continuing to attack: About three weeks ago, on July 7, Eisenbach arrived in the ultra-Orthodox city of Modi'in Illit, followed a 6-year-old boy in the Brachfeld neighborhood, and asked him to accompany him. He went down with him to the storage room floor of the building where the boy lives, where he committed a serious crime against him.
The boy told his parents about what had happened, and they consulted with the rabbi of the southern neighborhood in Modi'in Elite, Rabbi Yehuda Kenner, who ordered them to immediately contact the police. Later, after they filed a complaint and were summoned for questioning by a youth investigator, the city's rabbi, Rabbi Kessler, ordered them to report. The parents demanded that the investigator be observant, and the police complied.
This time, unlike the failed investigation into the case of the 7-year-old girl who was attacked in an ultra-Orthodox community, investigators at the Modi'in Elite police station acted appropriately.
The one who enlisted the help of the police was a city resident, Zvika Golovanczich, who knows the scene well. "This time the police worked like crazy, investigators arrived immediately and conducted observations. I brought videos, sat on the cameras for hours, and finally recognized him coming out of an elevator, a few minutes after the incident with the child happened," he tells Haredim 10.
""We sat, the investigators and I, on the cameras, looking for a direction. Luckily for us, on the way out of the city, he entered an entrance floor where there were good cameras. The suspect, after the attack, fled the area and put his suit in a bag, to make identification more difficult.""
""They sent the police his picture from the camera, scanned it - and within a few minutes they realized who it was: a resident of Beit Shemesh, a convicted felon. The Modi'in Illit police contacted the Beit Shemesh police to arrest him - and then the investigators said: 'Bingo.' On Saturday, two girls were attacked according to this man's description.".
Investigators at the Beit Shemesh police station arrested Eisenbach on Tuesday last week, on suspicion that the previous Shabbat night, he had attacked a 7-year-old girl whose family was attending a family celebration at a function hall in a Haredi neighborhood in Beit Shemesh. Two girls, ages 6 and 7, were playing outside the hall when a man approached them and asked to show him how to get to a nearby address. One of the girls panicked and ran inside the hall to call her parents. The other girl remained with the suspect.
The parents went outside, detained the suspect, and upon questioning, he admitted to committing a serious act against the girl, gave them his details - and they let him go. A few days later, the parents went to the city police station and filed a complaint about the attack.
Police investigators immediately understood who he was and he was arrested.
During his interrogation, he was shown footage from security cameras collected in Modi'in Elite. According to the police, he initially did not cooperate with the investigation, but later identified himself in the footage presented to him.
However, regarding what happened in Beit Shemesh, he maintained his right to remain silent. The court extended his detention, noting that "the acts attributed to the respondent constitute grounds for detention of dangerousness. This is strengthened in light of the fact that he is a convicted felon and has two previous convictions for felonies for which he served prison time.".
In a hearing held today at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, police investigators submitted, as mentioned, a statement of claim from the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office regarding their intention to file an indictment against him, and his detention was extended for the fourth time - until next Monday.
