Senior Navy officer accused of sex offenses

An Israeli navy officer has been convicted of various sex offenses against multiple female soldiers. The soldiers say he touched them against their will, made sexually inappropriate remarks.

Lieutenant Colonel G. was convicted last week in military court for a long line of sex offenses perpetrated against two soldiers who served under his command in a base near Haifa.

The court convicted the senior officer in charges of indecent acts, sexual harassment, sabotaging investigation, obstruction of criminal proceedings and inappropriate behavior.

Throughout his investigation and in the trial conducted over the past year, the officer has denied all allegations against him, and said the two soldiers under his command plotted against him after he had revealed one of them was hired in order to discover illegal offenses at the base.

Still, he admitted that he stayed with both of them for a long time in his office during a night on November 2011.

The Judges ruled his version was unreliable and incongruent with evidence.