Police arrested a 34-year-old foreign national, a caregiver, on suspicion of abusing a helpless elderly woman she was caring for, her detention was extended Tuesday. Most of the attacks allegedly occurred while the elderly woman was sleeping. As a result of the attacks, she sustained skull fractures and bruises. The injury to the elderly woman arose as a result of her son placing a camera in his mother's home.
A few days ago, the victim's son came to the police and reported what had emerged from the security cameras. Behn said that what led him to install cameras was due to a long period in which his mother had various bruises, including eye bruises, skull fractures, her dentures breaking repeatedly, and he installed security cameras instead.
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For the first time, when he checked what was captured on the security cameras, he discovered that the caregiver who has been caring for his mother for the past 14 months assaulted her on countless occasions, including kicks to the stomach and punches to the head, without any justification or provocation, and most of the assaults were caused while the victim was sleeping. In his testimony, the son said that he thought that even though his mother was demented, the more someone hit her, the more she would know how to complain about it. He believed that the bruises she had on her body were really the result of all kinds of falls, as the therapist described to him, and that when suspicion grew, he installed the cameras.
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The caregiver was detained for questioning and yesterday was brought to the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court for an extension of her detention, where a police representative said that this was a shocking incident and in light of the fact that the suspicions indicate that the assaults were allegedly carried out over a prolonged period, many hours of camera must be passed. The police representative also noted that when the suspect was shown in videos in which she could be seen hitting the victim without provocation and even while the victim was asleep, she confessed to the acts and claimed that these were one-time incidents, after at the beginning of her interrogation the suspect said that she was also allegedly bruised by the victim.
Judge Tirza Shaham Keinan, who extended the suspect's detention by three days, noted that there is reasonable suspicion linking the suspect to her allegations, and wrote in her decision: "I understand the defense attorney's arguments that the task of treating the patient is so difficult that it is sometimes necessary to provide assistance to the foreign worker, but they do not diminish the severity of the suspicions attributed to the suspect."
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