The two are suspected of violent offenses against toddlers in a private kindergarten in Ramla • Parents and citizens held a demonstration in the city, where they demanded to increase enforcement and punishment • All details
Two more aides were detained for questioning
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A day after the Magistrate's Court in Rishon Lezion extended by three days the detention of two assistants in a private kindergarten in the city of Ramla suspected of abusing toddlers in the kindergarten, the police announced today (Wednesday) a delay in investigating two more assistants from the kindergarten due to similar suspicion.
Police said the two aides detained for questioning are suspected of violent offenses against the toddlers. At the same time, parents of toddlers in the kindergarten and citizens held a protest on Bar Ilan Street in Ramla, in which they demanded that enforcement and punishment be tightened against gardeners and abusive aides.
As reported by the first aides, Nirit Schweid and Ruhama Saad, were arrested during Monday after an investigation was opened by the Humiliation Area Police due to a complaint from the kindergarten owner and another complaint from parents of toddlers aged six months to two years. The cases were discovered by chance when one of the parents had previously installed cameras in the kindergarten at the request of the owners of the place, arrived to fix a fault, viewed the documentation history and was horrified to find out about the acts. He took the documentation and passed it on to the other parents, who at the end of the viewing decided to complain.
In the documentation, which was also presented to the court, the assistants slapped the children, tied some of them to chairs with a diaper, pushed beatings with objects and more. Through the defense attorneys, Yaron Forer and Moshe Algali, they denied as stated. According to defense attorneys, the hidden cameras that were installed without the knowledge of the garden owner constitute a violation of privacy, since they were installed in violation of the Wiretapping Law.
However, Judge Zohar Divon Segal accepted the investigators' position, ruling that the material presented to her indicates that there is a reasonable suspicion that the aides did indeed carry out what was attributed to them. Some of the parents who came to the courtroom argued that it was a lie. "You can see in the videos how they hit, push, throw children on their backs and hit with a box of magnets," they claimed.