This Blogger Showered With Benny Sela (Ugh!)

December 11, 2006 - 12:47 AM by Allison

No, really. His name is Daniel and he really did.:

I had a shower with Benny Sela! In fact I had many showers with him and others, we were standing on opposite sides naked, aged 16 or 17 in the communal boys shower in the boys quarters of the year 10 and year 11 at Alonei Itzhak in 1988 and 1989. This was normal, we had no separate showers at school and so showering in full sight was quite normal. Little did I know then, or anyone else for that matter that showering with Benny would become a moment of horror for dozens of women.

It’s the beginning of a fascinating long post full of inside knowledge of the notorious now-captured serial rapist and how his case is a failure of the Israeli social welfare system on a number of levels and his old classmate believes strongly “that his behaviour and emotional instability could been prevented or at least have been managed, had the care system functioned appropriately as it should after a child witnesses its father suicide and the rejection of his mother. It is most likely that his adult life would have been different.”

If the system had been functioning properly, if it had not been able to prevent him from becoming a violent rapist, then at least he might have been identified as a danger and he could have been apprehended before destroying so many women’s lives.

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