Israeli Gay Conversion Therapist Convicted of Assault

Reuven Welcher, an Israeli gay conversion therapist, has been convicted of sexually assaulting two boys he claimed to be treating, reports the Times of Israel.

The indictment states Welcher met the boys dozens of times between 2007 and 2012. The prosecution said he “made use” of the boys’ “distress”.

“This is an abusive relationship that went on for years, with the sex crimes committed on many occasions during therapy sessions, in hotels and in the clinic in Welcher’s home.”

Welcher would shout at the boys, humiliate them, threaten them, and force them to write long lists of things that would “make them men.”

Welcher confessed to all charges.

Gay conversion therapy is the damaging practice of trying to “convert” LGBT+ people straight. It has been discredited by medical experts across the world.

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