Violence Against Women: A Rare Indictment Attributed to Unusual Events, During Which He Passed His Wife and Mother to Mask of Torture and Physical and Mental Abuse • Victim: "90% of the time I had blue marks on the body, marks on the back" • "The accused was treating his wife as belonging to him"

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The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on Monday sentenced to five years in prison for a resident of the Central Region who was convicted, among other things, of assaulting a spouse and assaulting an old man causing actual injury. The indictment attributed to the defendant extraordinary events, during which he delivered his wife and mother a physical and mental torment and abuse. "Only when they said he was already imprisoned and couldn't reach me so I was able to breathe. Now we have to start living again ...," the woman said in her testimony in court.

The indictment listed all the shocking incidents that led to the serious charges. For example, it is described that due to a flag his wife dropped from the clothesline on Independence Day, in which case he hit his mother with a chair after adding spice patties he did not like. 

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At some point during the relationship, the defendant "became angry with the complainant" and instructed her to stand on a single floor, one leg, without moving; When she moves - she attacks her with slaps and punches. In another case, the husband hit his wife while she was pregnant. After losing the fetus and terminating her pregnancy, he blamed her for terminating her pregnancy because she was "defiled" and "had sinned in thinking of other men."

One day the husband was lying in bed in the room and instructed his wife to stand on one leg and salute him, later, instructed her to switch between the legs, turned and told her that she was not released, and the complainant was left standing on one leg while saluting the defendant. After about an hour and a half she pleaded with him to allow her to lie down in bed, and the defendant told her he wanted to 'whip' her further. He punched her and told her, "What fun to see you suffer," and cursed her until she fell asleep.

In another case, the defendant grabbed her by the hair of her head, pulled them over and said to her: "Take care of the boy. What closes with you? Do you want him to see it?" The defendant's mother arrived to protect the woman from attacking her and in response he hit his mother.

The woman testified in court about the deeds and shared it with her harsh feelings, and the mental and physical damage she suffered as a result of the defendant's actions. "... At first everything was perfect, a doggy guy. He knew how to behave properly, knew how to talk, knew how to pamper, everything needed to be courted. Then on a clear day he showed that he was not. He made a very, very calculated impression." 

"He managed to reassure me of everyone I knew and basically take control of me in every way possible. Horror movie every day ...", the woman said in her testimony, adding: "For six months I lived in a type of prison that I couldn't escape. Daily and getting stronger from time to time. You become increasingly paralyzed and afraid, you are afraid to breathe, you are afraid to live, which is something you do not get used to no matter how long. "

Judge Shamai Becker, who has sentenced her husband to five years in prison, said: "The defendant's actions towards his partner and his mother compromised their personal safety and the integrity of their body and mind. The defendant treated the woman as an object and not as a person, and at times acted as a slave. Her free will, for her behavior. He not only hurt, but even desecrated her dignity and privacy. "

The judge also added: "During the indictment describing that horrific day, the reader felt as a viewer of a horror movie: reading a section, wishing that the abuse would stop; reading another episode of violence, shouting" enough! "; Another description, and the reader literally begging -" stop And yet another - and a cry escapes from the chest "Let her go, leave her", and repeat, and again, and again, and again, never-ending, mercilessly. What kind of man does this to a woman, to another person, and more in the presence of his mother? ".

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The woman said it was the defendant's mother who rescued her. "She called police. He tried to strangle me. When I came to a police station, I was still scared of him because I knew he would find me and do me. I don't know why he can." She also told how she hid the marks from her body that they would not see about it in her work. "Ninety percent of the time I had blue marks on the body, every time somewhere else on the body, and if I had a face I had to put on a lot of material to hide it so there would be no questions at work."

"It's bruising in the hand, in some colors, blue, red, purple, lots of marks on the back, eyes also blue, foot, also in the other hand, whoever saw it later saw from my family did not believe, did not believe that such a degree of Cruelty, ”the woman said in her testimony.

Finally, the judge wrote: "The court must protect the public, in this case - the public of women in general, and the defendant's mother in particular, and keep them out of the community for a significant period of time."