Three times the husband was convicted of assaulting his first wife - and returned to Suro with the second too • The judge sentenced him to a month of service work

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An actual month in prison for service work, this is the punishment sentenced by the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court with me Ramlin for the husband who attacked his wife as she did not respond to his request to wash her underwear.

In the past, he had already been convicted three times in two years for the offense of assaulting his first wife, and in all cases was given a suspended sentence.

According to the indictment in which the husband was convicted, the incident occurred when the couple returned to their home, a week after giving birth in cesarean, and the sutures had not yet been removed from the woman's body so she had difficulty walking. The husband poured liquid on his wife for staining, because he was angry that she did not respond to his request that she manually wash underwear that became dirty at birth.

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Then he took her clothes out of the closet, threw them on the floor and poured water on them. Since all her clothes were wet, the woman took her husband's socks, and in response he pulled them off her legs, held her hand tightly, turned her hand and made her scratch her hand and fall to the ground. Due to her condition following the imperial surgery, the woman found it difficult to get out of the country and return to bed, but crawled to her. When she managed to get to bed, her husband told her to move, because he wanted to sleep and again poured water on the clothes that were scattered on the ground.

"Hurt the integrity of her body"

In the sentencing, Judge Itai Harmlin wrote: "The defendant's actions violated his wife's human dignity, integrity, and right to peace of mind. The violence and injury to the body in this case were very minor, but the defendant's actions were a significant element of his wife's humiliation and indifference to her health." In the arguments for the punishment, the defense counsel argued that the appropriate punishment for the acts was a suspended sentence, due to the fact that after the indictment was filed, the defendant "integrated" his initiative into treatment groups.

The defendant spoke to the court and said: "I didn't hit her, maybe she found a scratch." In the end, the judge sentenced him to one month in prison, to serve in public service and three months' probation for three years. "The combination of the slightest degree of violence, the large amount of time elapsed and the improvement of the couple's relationship since the case, has led in the vast majority of cases to the suspended sentence," Judge Harmlin wrote in sentencing, adding: "However, the combination of three previous convictions in the same offense with failure to ־ A complete understanding of the wrongfulness of the acts, expressed in expressing grief or remorse for them, requires that the defendant impose a penalty which is not at the bottom of the appropriate penalty area. "