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Nitrate with a pillow while sleeping in her bed: A nursing nurse was charged with murdering a Holocaust survivor

Joanna Mohin, 30, from Moldova, cared for elderly Judith Goldstein for only about a month and a half until she decided to strangle her to death at her home in Hadera.

On the morning of the murder, the MDA team that was called thought it was a natural death, but later it became clear that Goldstein had been murdered.

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Yoav Itiel and Shlomi Gabay

Monday, 08 November 2021, 17:17 Updated: 17:18

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An indictment was filed today (Monday) against Joanna Mohin, a 30-year-old foreign caregiver from Moldova, for the murder of a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor she was treating.

Mohin is accused of strangling Judith Goldstein to death last month using a pillow in her bed.

According to the indictment, on the night of October 11-12, the caregiver made the decision to kill the elderly woman in her heart.

Late at night she took a pillow that had been laid on Goldstein, laid it on her face and strangled her with her help for a few minutes with the intention of causing her death.

She then left her room and left her like that.

In the morning, when Goldstein's daughter entered the room, she found her lifeless.

That morning, MDA staff who were called to the scene did not suspect anything. The caregiver, she was detained and taken for questioning at the station, where she admitted that she killed the elderly woman and even told how.

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Joanna Mohin, accused of murdering an elderly woman she cared for (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

In court, attorneys Anat Holi and Dan Gilad, who represented her on behalf of the Public Defender's Office during the investigation, which lasted about a month, again denied the murder attributed to her and claimed failures in translating and understanding her version by a translator who does not speak her language.

Advocate Dan Gilad responded that "this is a woman who suffers from mental illness and does not differentiate between reality and imagination. Deceased died at a ripe and there is no finding true acknowledges that died an unnatural death. "Interpreter, for its part, argued in court that the caregiver understands being told. In addition, forensic evidence supports the conclusion that investigators from the struggle against crime in the area Menashe that this is a murder.

The findings Biological opinions revealed a saliva stain in the center of the pillow with the elderly woman's DNA and the caregiver's DNA on the other side and on both sides of the pillow. Soft such as a pillow.

The elderly woman's home in Hadera (Photo: Walla !, Shlomi Gabay)

Joanna Mohin worked for Goldstein for less than a month and a half. Relatives of the elderly woman who lived in Rishon Lezion hired her to work at the end of September after the elderly woman's regular caregiver went on vacation in her homeland. However, in the first days of Mohin's work, they were not satisfied with her functioning and decided to move the elderly woman to live in a separate unit next to the daughter's home in the city of Hadera, with her caregiver. On the afternoon of October 11, they drove the two from Rishon Lezion to a house in Hadera. The murder happened that night.

Simultaneously with the filing of the indictment, prosecutor Bnei Pascal is asking the Haifa District Attorney's Office to extend the nursing caregiver's detention until the end of the legal proceedings against her, stating that she has no permanent address in Israel and that her family, including her children, are abroad. "The indictment has just been filed, we will respond after we receive and study the evidence in the case," the defense attorney said today.Dan Dan Gled.

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