The president of the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, Justice Shulamit Dotan on erev shabbos released the mother to house arrest, continuing in the home of askan Rav Freilich, reunited with three of her children. The hearing on Sunday will address the hospitalized toddler, who the mother is suspected of abusing. The court will have to decide if he too may be reunited with his mother upon his release, which is expected on Sunday.
The Eida Chareidis chalked up a victory on erev shabbos when Jerusalem District Court Justice Rafi Carmel upheld Dotan’s decision to permit the continued house arrest and to reunite the mother with her children.
Justice Carmel had harsh words for the prosecution, accusing the state of “taking things way out of proportion… After all there is an adult supervising. What is she going to do, drown them all in the bathtub?”
Mom was released and she returned to Meah Shearim on erev shabbos, with neighbors reporting she was met with a warm welcome, embraced by her children.
It should be pointed out that Justice Dotan did release the mother but added there is sufficient evidence for a criminal indictment against the defendant regarding the hospitalized child, evidence that contradicts the favorable psychiatric evaluation submitted by Dr. Yaakov Weill.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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The prosecution’s whole case probably hinges on mental illness. Otherwise it will be very hard to convince anyone, that a seemingly loving stable mother purposely starved her child. She will thus be given the benefit of the doubt with a big strech. They really need to convince the judge that she is sick. So it was a victory.
“The Eida Chareidis chalked up a victory”
HUH? I dont get this. Where were they to stop the child from getting abused? Where were they to help the many frum families who are in a crises because one parent or another abuses their children? Just because someone may not be considered insane does not mean that they are fit to be parents. Why aren’t they helping our children? Why does it seem that they care about PR more than the welfare of our children?