Recently, a phenomenon has begun in which boys from the territories are sent to Israeli territory to steal vehicles, so that if they are arrested - then the courts will consider them due to their young age.
A judge in the Netanya Juvenile Court, Lizzie Freund, decided to fight the phenomenon, and sentenced a 17-year-old boy from the territories, who has no criminal record, to six months in prison.
Judge Freund wrote in her decision that a clear message should come out of the court that the fact that the thief was a minor would not exempt him from proper punishment.
According to the indictment filed against the boy by the Central Youth Claims Division of the Police Prosecution Division, in late August he entered Israel from the territories, and stole a car from Netanya.
During his trip, the boy encountered a police checkpoint initiated on Route 531, where he was stopped by police.
During a search of the vehicle, burglary tools and a vehicle computer were seized to the engine of the vehicle.
The boy will be sent to half a year in prison (illustration), Photo: Reuters
For the police it was another case of many kinds of boys with no criminal record being sent from the territories to Israel to steal vehicles. The boy's defense attorney noted in court that he was a boy with no criminal record, which was the first time he entered Israel, that he was dragged by a group of adults from Tulkarem who brought him to Netanya to steal a car back to the territories, so his part in the act is minor. According to him, it was possible to make do with the days he spent in detention as punishment. On the other hand, the representative of the claims division stated that the boy's actions not only constitute an injury to the private property of the vehicle owner, but also an injury to the sense of security of the entire public - and petitioned for eight months' imprisonment.
Despite the boy's clean past, Judge Freund ordered the boy to be sentenced to half a year in prison.
"I am correct in assuming that he was tempted to carry out what was attributed to him in recognition of the severe and widespread phenomenon of using minors to transport stolen vehicles to the PA," she wrote in her decision, adding: Of the perpetrator of the perpetrator in order to exempt him from proper punishment. Of this widespread phenomenon. "
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