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Conflict Incident Report

Suspected child-sex offender apprehended

Date of incident: 
August 14, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)

An individual suspected of sexually assaulting minors in Mount Lebanon’s Aley town was apprehended by Internal Security Forces.

The offender, born in 1958, confessed to assaulting three children born in 2003, 2006 and 2009. According to the three victims, their assaulter threatened to beat and murder them if they were to inform others.

The case has been referred to the anti-human trafficking unit of the ISF for further investigation.

Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Individual acts of violence
Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.