IDF officer resigns over molestation accusations

14.08.2011                      14.Aw-Elul, 5771

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IDF officer resigns over molestation accusations

A number of soldiers claim the officer came into their rooms at night and sometimes touched them inappropriately.

A company commander with the rank of captain in the Paratroop Brigade left the Israel Defense Forces last week after soldiers under his command accused him of molesting them. A criminal investigation has not been opened and is considered unlikely, according to judicial sources in the military.
The officer, identified only by the initial A., had been the company commander for eight months, the last two as part of an operational battalion deployed at the northern border.
A number of soldiers reported that A. came into their rooms at night and sometimes touched them inappropriately. Privately, some soldiers spoke of sexually suggestive comments and actions made by the captain during conversations with them….