A 3-month-old infant who recently was placed in child care died on Sunday morning in the Har Nof neighborhood of Yerushalayim. The caretaker saw the baby began turning blue and summoned HaChovesh, the local EMS response organization. EMTs responded within minutes, followed by MDA paramedics. The child was transported to Shaare Zedek Medical center as resuscitation was ongoing. The child was pronounced dead in the emergency room by physicians are resuscitation was unsuccessful.
Police questioned the caretaker and is determining if there was any negligence involved.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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I just came back from the levaya of the baby, Yisroel Meir. He was 6 months old. The cause of death was SIDS and there are no tainos against the babysitter who noticed the baby turning blue and called hatzalah right away.
shame on you yeshiva world news- why would you cause tzaar to people who are suffering beyond words by saying there might have been negligence? WHAT IS THE POINT?? FOR THE SENSATIONAL NEWS ASPECT??? You think you are helping the police? Where is your rachmanus? You did the same thing last summer when a little girl died in Ramat Eshkol and wrote about the doctor involved… I am ashamed to be associated with the yidden you ‘so called’ represent
I sit here reading this article and trying to figure out why Mr. Ramateshkolian is so attacking when YW reported the story accurately. PD did what they have to do in the entire world, when such an unfortunate story takes place. Such incidents, although they R”L do accure, it is not that common, and it is routine for PD to question all those present, almost routinely to ducument in their report that there was no negligence. No place in the article, did anyone Chas Veshalom suspect anybody of wrongdoing or negligence.
The problem is that YWN should have written:
Police questioned the caretaker and determined that there was NO negligence involved.
It was determined right away (and announced at the levaya) that not only was there no negligence, the babysitter noticed so quickly that they even had time to work on the baby in the hospital for a while before pronouncing him niftar. It is common knowledge who the babysitter was and to make her seem suspicious in any way is deceitful reporting and completely assur.