Case of George
Schteinberg

Hebrew School
Teacher

Following a young girl's testimony, police
arrested a Schteinberg at his home early Tuesday where they found pictures of
nude girls taken in the diplomat's apartment.

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Brazilian
police stake out diplomat accused of running kiddie-porn ring
(07/06/2000)

Israeli
Consul Assistant involved with prostitution of minors escapes from
Brazil (07/05/2000)

Brazil
links Israeli consul to child prostitution
(07/05/2000)

Also see:

Case of Aryeh Scher- Israeli
vice-consul in Rio

Case of Michael
Spingarn

The
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Rabbis, Cantors and
Other Trusted Officials

Offenders: Problems Our
Parents Wouldn't Speak Of

Recidivism of
Sex Offenders  (U.S. Department of Justice: Center for Sex Offender
Management)

Israeli Consul
Assistant involved with prostitution of minors escapes from Brazil

Brazil This Week (Estado.Estadao) - July 5
-11, 2000

http://www.estado.estadao.com.br/english/newweek/new000711.html#materia2

Civil and Federal police are investigating the
involvement of Consul Assistant of Israel in Rio de Janeiro, Arie Scher, in an
international minors prostitution network. The police got to the consul after
searching the house owned by 40-year old school teacher Georges Schteinberg,
where police found 154 photos of naked teenagers and 12 VCR tapes. Schteinberg
was arrested in a special cell for prisoners with university degrees.

Both men were accused by 17-year old R.R., who
called the police after seeing pictures of herself naked in the Internet. She
said that she worked for the schoolteacher as a secretary and earned R$ 200 a
month. The girl also revealed that she used to go to Scher's house with her
friends, where they took off their clothes and were photographed. According to
the teenager, Scher also liked the company of boys and had an intimate
relationship with Schteinberg, as shone by a photograph in which they appear
naked together. In Scher's house, the police found 21 pornographic pictures of
girls, five VCR and two DVD tapes.

The principal of A Liessin school, a
traditional Israeli school in Rio de Janeiro where Schteinberg used to teach,
released a note to the press informing that they had never had any information
whatsoever about discrediting behavior regarding the teacher. Students said to
be astonished because the teacher "seemed to be a very serious, nice and police
person." Schteinberg will be indicted for corruption and exploitation of minors
and may be convicted for 4 to 10 years in prison for the first crime and 1 to 4
years in jail for the second, depending on the charges.

On Thursday, July 6th, the police of Rio de
Janeiro revealed that the case was closed because the Consul Assistant left the
country and is, therefore, considered an outlaw fugitive. Scher embarked to
Argentina and from there took a plane to Israel. Some news wires informed that
he had testified late last week in Israel. Now, the case is in the hands of the
consul's home country, which may even decide to deport Scher and force him to
testify in Brazil. According to the Brazilian police, samples of evidence will
still be examined.

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Brazilian police stake out diplomat accused
of running kiddie-porn ring

By Eli Muller and News Agencies

Jerusalem Post - July 6, 2000

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/07/06/News/News.9263.html

JERUSALEM (July 6) - Brazilian police
continued to surround the Israeli consulate in Rio de Janeiro in the belief that
Israeli vice-consul in Rio Aryeh Scher, wanted on suspicion of running a child
pornography ring, had taken refuge there. However Foreign Ministry officials
said Scher has been en route to Israel for the past two days.

Scher, who was at one point consul-general in
Rio, was declared a fugitive by Brazilian authorities after a search of his
apartment on Tuesday yielded what police officials described as evidence it was
used for the manufacture of pornographic material, some of them involving
underage girls.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman declined to comment
on whether the Brazilian police had been informed of Scher's whereabouts, but
said that general-consul Eitan Sorkin would meet with Brazilian foreign ministry
officials yesterday afternoon.

Brazilian authorities notified the Israeli
embassy of plans to revoke Scher's diplomatic immunity on Tuesday, prior to the
search. By the time police were able to obtain a warrant to search Scher's
penthouse, the vice-consul was already on his way back to Israel, where he will
face a Foreign Ministry inquiry. A ministry spokesman said that Scher had been
recalled when the first evidence of possible misconduct surfaced, and that he
had left the country via "legal diplomatic channels."

The investigation that culminated in the
search of Scher's apartment began when a 17-year-old girl accused Georges
Schteinberg, a 40-year-old Hebrew teacher of using her as a model in
pornographic pictures and of distributing them on the Internet. Photographs of
nude minors posed on a car with diplomatic plates were discovered in a search of
Schteinberg's residence earlier in the week, in addition to massive quantities
of pornographic material. Police then traced the car in the pictures back to
Scher.

The search of Scher's apartment confirmed that
some of the photographs found at Schteinberg's residence had been taken in the
vice-consul's penthouse.

Schteinberg, who is also alleged to have run a
service that brought tourists to Brazil to visit child prostitutes, has since
been charged with sexual exploitation of minors.

Israeli embassy and consulate officials in
Brazil refused comment pending the release of further evidence.

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Brazil links Israeli consul to child
prostitution

Reuters - July 5, 2000

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian police
suspect an Israeli diplomat of hosting child prostitution sessions after finding
pictures of nude teen-age girls taken at his apartment, police said
Wednesday.

Police began a hunt for Israel's
administration consul to Rio de Janeiro, Arie Scher, Tuesday and the Israeli
government said it was recalling the middle-ranking diplomat to investigate
whether he was innocent or guilty.

Following a young girl's testimony, police
arrested a Hebrew teacher at his home early Tuesday where they found pictures of
nude girls taken in the diplomat's apartment. In other photos, where everybody
was fully dressed, Scher appeared embracing the same girls.

"We confirmed that the pornographic pictures
were taken next to the consul's pool and on his deck," said Roberto Costa, a
chief investigator for the civil police. "We are going to charge him with
exploiting minors and prostituting them."

Police believe Scher is hiding out in the
Israeli Consulate in Rio.

Foreign Minister David Levy told Israel's Army
Radio, "I don't know if he is guilty, if he is innocent. The first thing is we
need to bring him home and an investigation has to be conducted."

The Israeli Embassy in Brasilia said it would
not comment on the case until it had further details.

Police said a young girl testified that she
was filmed and photographed by the teacher, Georges Schteinberg, having sex with
Israeli tourists. She also claimed that Scher participated in some of the
sessions, without explaining what his role was.

In Schteinberg's home, police said they found
12 videos, Internet messages and 154 pictures, including the shots of naked
girls in Scher's apartment.

Rio de Janeiro has the highest rate of child
prostitution in Brazil. Workers at hotels and restaurants along world-famous
Copacabana beach often offer to provide clients with teenage
prostitutes.

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