IDF reservist convicted in large-scale online child sexual abuse case

A district court in central Israel convicted a 22-year-old Israel Defense Forces reservist of dozens of sexual offenses in what prosecutors described as an unprecedented large-scale online child sexual abuse case. The conviction followed a plea agreement.

Uri Alfi, from Mazkeret Batya, admitted that he posed as a woman on social media and used technological tools to manipulate fathers into sexually abusing their own children and sending him recordings of the acts. Prosecutors stated that he used online software that allowed him to appear and sound like a woman during video calls.

According to the prosecution, Alfi instructed men to carry out sexual acts against their minor children, including infants and very young children, and to document and transmit the abuse. Authorities said he also communicated under female identities with dozens of other users, including minors, convincing them to perform sexual acts on themselves, record the acts, and send the material.

Investigators reported finding more than 150 files containing child sexual abuse material in his possession. Alfi was convicted of multiple offenses, including causing rape and indecent acts against minors by family members, attempted rape of a minor family member, use of a minor’s body for the production of obscene material, blackmail, and related crimes.