Man Arrested in Jeitawi on Charges of Raping Minor Boys

A man was arrested on Saturday in the Ashrafiyeh neighborhood of Jeitawi on charges of raping several minor boys.

“After a 16-year-old Lebanese minor male was raped by an unknown man, who had picked him up in his private car from the Jisr el-Wati area ... and threatened him with a pistol and a knife, and following intensive investigations by the Morals Protection Bureau, it obtained information about the presence in the Jeitawi area of a man who drives a car of the same type … and about his suspicious relations with minor boys,” the Internal Security Forces said in a statement.

“The aforementioned bureau on Saturday managed to monitor the movements of the suspect and to arrest him at his residence,” it added.

The ISF identified the man as Lebanese national M. N., 28, noting that “pornographic pictures and videos in which he appears raping minors were found at his house.”

During the investigations, the victim he picked up from Jisr el-Wati managed to identify him and the car in which he was raped, the ISF said, adding that the man "confessed to raping several other minors and to documenting his crimes with pictures and videos."

The Directorate General of the ISF called on those who fell victim to this type of crimes, "especially minors, to head to the Morals Protection Bureau at the Youssef Hbeish Barracks in Beirut's Hamra to try to recognize the arrested suspect."