After deliberating the matter this morning, Tuesday, 18 Nissan, the Ashkelon Court has ruled in favor of a police request, seeking an autopsy on the infant who died in an accident in the Miami Hotel in Ashdod. The one-month-old, Gavriel, fell from his mother’s arms into the jacuzzi according to reports. After deliberating the matter this morning, Tuesday, 18 Nissan, the Ashkelon Court has ruled in favor of a police request, seeking an autopsy on the infant who died in an accident in the Miami Hotel in Ashdod. The one-month-old, Gavriel, fell from his mother’s arms into the jacuzzi according to reports.
Attorney Moshe Elmaliach of ZAKA’s legal department has received a delay in the autopsy to permit him to appeal the decision to the High Court of Justice.
The court has agreed to a police request to place a gag order on the investigation, barring publication of most details in the ongoing case. The mother of the infant has been arrested and other family members have been questioned in the case.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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the Zionists evil has no end.
Israel’s police are not all tzaddikim gmurim … But even so, if the police went so far as to arrest the mother, and the court backed thei autopsy request after a hearing, all of that suggests that they have non-trivial grounds for questionaing her account. If so, could the halacha support (or obligate) performing an autopsy?
By the way, mothers with post-partum depression do sometimes experience a desire to kill their babies. They rarely do so, but it does happen in rare instances.
is there somewhere we can call? a petition we can sign?
While Halacha does not normally allow an autopsy, this case is clearly different as there is concern of criminal intent.
If it were clearly an accident there would be no need for an autopsy.
We should be blocking all the main business thoroughfares in Tel Aviv until these reshoyim back down.
ysam- And if someone had depression and did something like that, do you see the benefit of arresting her and putting her into jail?