Man Who Adopted Nine Boys Charged After Teen Phones Podcast And Speaks Of Years Of Abuse

A man who adopted nine boys has been charged with sexually abusing at least one of his sons for years after the teenager phoned into a podcast and spoke of the abuse.

Hayim Nissim Cohen, 38, poses in undated photo. The adoptive father of nine, is accused of sexually abusing his sons for years after one of the teens reported the abuse on a podcast, and was arrested in Huston, Texas, USA, on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. (Newsflash)

Hayim Nissim Cohen, 38, of Harris County, Texas, in the USA, was arrested on Friday, 10th February, after his 17-year-old son reportedly joined the podcast anonymously and said that he and his brothers had been abused.

The 17-year-old adopted son told the podcaster, who has not been named, that he was using a burner phone to make the call and that he and his brothers were being sexually abused, using the term “rape”.

Despite the alleged abuse, the minor, who has not been named, said that Child Protective Services (CPS) had carried out eight investigations into the family, but nothing had ever resulted from it.

According to court records, the teenager told the podcaster that “every time that CPS is involved that [Cohen] bribes or scares him and his brother.”

The teenager said that he was waiting until he was 18 to speak up and that he did not want to give any identifying information to the podcast. He also reportedly said that he was afraid that no one would believe him because he had told CPS before that no abuse had happened.

But he then admitted that the abuse had allegedly begun two weeks after he was adopted when he was just 11 years old.

Hayim Nissim Cohen, 38, poses with his sons in undated photo. The adoptive father of nine, is accused of sexually abusing his sons for years after one of the teens reported the abuse on a podcast, and was arrested in Huston, Texas, USA, on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. (Newsflash)

After the broadcast, CPS opened their investigation again and reportedly identified the teenager.

The dad, Cohen, an Orthodox Jew, was out of jail on bond over a case of indecency with a child, according to local media.

He was reportedly accused of having sexual contact with a foreign exchange student from Spain who was living with them in 2019.

The student is currently suing Cohen and the organisation that placed him in his family.

Sherry Chandler, the lawyer representing the Spanish exchange student, told local media: “There were so many red flags.”

She added: “We all suspected [Cohen] is a paedophile. You don’t just start one day. We all suspected the other kids were getting abused.”

The teen also told investigators that “everything he does is fake.”

Hayim Nissim Cohen, 38, poses in undated photo. The adoptive father of nine, is accused of sexually abusing his sons for years after one of the teens reported the abuse on a podcast, and was arrested in Huston, Texas, USA, on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. (Newsflash)

The teenage boy also said that his adoptive father “only uses his wheelchair when people come over or when he is in public.”

He added that Cohen “has six oxygen tanks and does not use them” and that he “only coughs uncontrollably when he is in court.”

Cohen is next set to appear in court on 23rd February.