Israel Police received multiple complaints of sexual abuse of girls aged 6-8 and opened an investigation.
Naason Joaquin Garcia, leader and self-styled apostle of the Guadalajara-based church La Luz del Mundo, is facing up to 16 years and eight months in prison.
The arrest comes amid a spate of recent revelations about misdeeds by rabbis in Ohio.
Reports of incidents of sexual violations against minors by pedophiles and sexual predators have been on the increase.
According to the rabbis, reading the books of Walder, a popular Israeli ultra-Orthodox author and therapist accused of raping young girls, is like supporting his actions.
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The popular author's weekly column in Yated Ne'eman has been suspended, and his talk show on Kol Chai radio has been taken off the air.
Two women have come forward to testify against ultra-Orthodox author Chaim Walder, alleging that he would engage in sex with them regularly when they were age 12 and 15.
Australian legal officials sought the minister’s approval to add another 20 counts of sexual abuse to Leifer’s indictment after the additional incidents came to light.
Elad Melamed of Rehovot took advantage of his role as a teacher to sexually harass his 14-year-old student.