Another shocking incident of abuse perpetrated by parents on their own children was unearthed in Israel Tuesday when a mother of eight was arrested on suspicion of raping her young children aged 8 and 11.
The woman who allegedly abused her children arrives in court on Tuesday.
Photo: Channel 2
The 38-year-old resident of Netivot admitted to the allegation and claimed that she did this in order to take revenge on her husband.
All the children were moved a year ago to boarding schools due to suspicions of neglect and abuse on the part of the mother.
The police said that when the mother admitted to the charges she claimed that she carried out the offense it in order to get back at her former husband from whom she had been recently divorced.
During the investigation into the original allegations of neglect, suspicions emerged that sexual relations with two of her children had existed for a number of months during the children's visits to their mother.
The incident was exposed as employees of the boarding school noticed that the children would stay late. Their behavior was described as "strange" by one of the brothers who then appealed to Netivot authorities.
The woman was remanded for a further five days in custody.
Also Tuesday, the State Attorney's Office submitted an indictment against the Ramat Beit Shemesh woman who is suspected of severely abusing her children. The woman was accused of three counts of abuse and 25 counts of assault against six of her 12 children.
Jerusalem District Court Judge Aharon Farkash decided to remand the woman in custody.
According to the indictment, the woman cut the hair of two of her daughters as punishment and on a separate occasion, extinguished a match on the chest of one of her sons. She is also accused of pouring water on several of her children in order to wake them in the morning.
She also allegedly denied some of her children entrance to the house, forcing them to eat at the homes of neighbors and friends. According to the indictment, she also tied up one her children, who is mentally impaired, and left him bound for a long period of time.
The woman heads a fringe sect of haredi women who cover their entire bodies with multiple layers of clothing and spend most of their days in self-imposed silence. Army Radio reported that during the deliberations, Judge Farkash asked that she remove her face covering but she refused and the court was forced to make do with her attorney's statement that "she recognizes the eyes of the accused."
4 comments:
Just what is the world coming to? Each day in the news the stories get more fantastic, more unbelievable. How can we account for this and what is the cause of such an apparent, grotesque manifestation?
Many quarters of society, i.e., psychology, sociology, theology, offer their own insights into this growing phenomenon.
Another science, the science of the soul, offers us its perspective from its view of reality. This science is called Kabbalah. A famous modern day Kabbalist, Rav Michael Laitman PhD, comments on these topical news items on his blog.
He states: "Egoism is assuming these horrible forms because we should have started correcting it on the mass scale a long time ago. The time of correction began with the Ari, and Baal Shem Tov also tried to achieve this by spreading Chassidut in Eastern Europe.
Egoism has grown beyond the boundaries of the natural, animate level, and is manifesting in a supernatural form, in order to force us to reject it and instead adopt bestowal and love. Unless we realize this and start correcting ourselves by studying Kabbalah (i.e. acquire a basic understanding of nature, life, and the world), then in the near future we will face even uglier manifestations of egoism, such that the world has never seen."
Further comments on this and other articles can be located at www.laitman.com .
Is it Jewish? No. It's simply an evolved egoism - we don't know what to do with this increased desire for pleasure that's growing inside us all the time; we don't know how to fulfill it, and it's causing all these kinds of things to take place, much more today than they ever have before.
Nice comment fchristie.
Of course it is Jewish .. in the sense expressed by Shylock. We are human. If you cut us we bleed and, along wih the rest of our ape clan, we can be very cruel.
A beeter question may be, "Do Jews have a better answer t human crulety? than others do?"
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