The Jerusalem Slutwalk organization called on Sunday to protest in support of Kim Ariel Arad, one of several alleged victims of psychologist Yuval Karmi, convicted of a sexual relationship between a patient and a treatment provider, as he appeared to submit a Jerusalem goes to court. Request that the indictment be changed to rape, Jerusalem Slutwalk said.
When it came time to indict her, the public was shocked, with the state attorney accusing Carmi of ‘sexual relations between a mental health treatment provider and a patient,’ instead of accusing him of rape.
“This way the state attorney unreliably bypasses the protection of the victims.”
Activists from Lotem, an organization that seeks to fight ‘gender-based terror’, and activists group ‘Breaking Walls’ hung posters with Yuval Karmi’s face, accusing a psychologist of sexually assaulting his patients , in the Jerusalem neighborhood where he lives. (credit: credit)
Ariel Arad will submit a request that the charges be turned into rape, which was signed by hundreds of men and women calling for the charge to be changed, said Slutwalk, who called for people to gather in Zion Square at 9 a.m. and marched to the state attorney’s office. .
“From 9:30 a.m., we will stand at the gates of the Jerusalem State Attorney and demand that they stop ignoring the voice of the public, take the necessary steps to fit the law into hard reality, and for the rape of Yuval Carmi. Prosecute. patients, as they should have done from the beginning,” added Jerusalem Slutwalk.
“There is no consensus in healing and unequal power relations.”