Three days later, on 24 September 1999, following the friend's words, Sergeant Sweid contacted the neighbors with a request to interrogate their daughter. According to what he wrote in the affidavit, the minor's mother told him that her daughter told her that she had seen the respondent's "bulbul" in the photo in the album when he was a baby. As a result, the police suspected that the respondent was involved in other offenses, and on September 29, 1999, the neighbor's daughter was interrogated by a child investigator, who determined that the girl had not made any sexual accusations.
It should also be noted that on September 28, 1999, between 20:20 and 20:42, Sergeant Sweid, at the request of the State Attorney's Office, made telephone calls from the area of Beit Hanich Perach, in order to check which relay stations the calls were received, but apparently the cellular company was not contacted to receive the location details, since these are not mentioned in the evidence material.
- In light of the new investigative materials, the parties agreed that the correct way to examine the respondent's case would be through a request for reconsideration that would be submitted to the District Court. Therefore, the respondent deleted the appeal he had filed in the Supreme Court, and on October 5, 1999, he filed a request for reconsideration with the District Court. On October 10, 1999, the respondent's counsel approached the District Attorney's Office and proposed an alternative to detention under restrictive conditions, and the next day the District Court (the Honorable Judge Z. Hartal) approved the request, which was submitted with the consent of the state. Beginning on October 11, 1999, and after 88 days of detention, the respondent was released to house arrest.
On 19 December 1999 and 3 January 2000, the respondent's counsel asked the District Attorney to examine whether the details of the case in question were consistent with the acts attributed to the "serial rapist" who was caught at the time (Benny Sela). The respondent's counsel noted that the serial rapist was found in possession of a hat and sunglasses, and that it was known that he had confessed to dozens of cases, including in the Sharon area. On January 4, 2000, a representative of the State Attorney's Office replied that theDNA found on the minor does not match the profile of theDNA of serial rapist Benny Sela (I will mention that a profile was found on the body of the minor DNA matched her profile only, so the answer was clearly irrelevant).