Shock among parents of children who were in the "Sweet Garden" nursery in Givatayim: Assistant Lehi Ben Daniel, who was convicted of assaulting toddlers and sent in September 2021 to serve a 15-month prison sentence, submitted a pardon request to the president, about six months after serving her sentence.
In a letter issued through their counsel, attorney Elad Rot, asking parents firmly reject the request. "The sentence imposed on it was to begin with a low relative moderate and serious offenses was convicted", protested. "This returns Transmissions of its arguments were heard in the Magistrate Court .
Circumstances of matrimony can be too much weight in our opinion.
Ben Daniel refused to accept the result sentence, appealed the verdict and when the District Court recommended that she return to her appeal.
No clemency request raised new or updated data which were not previously.
Enough to justify the rejection ".
The affair was revealed in June 2018 thanks to Ayelet, who noticed blue marks on the cheek of her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter.
When she told her other parents about her concerns, she got a cold shoulder from them.
Ayelet did not give up and demanded to see the cameras in the kindergarten, where there were children aged six months to three, and saw how kindergarten teacher Aviva Dahan hit the daughter on the head, pushed her, pulled her ear and threw her on the mattress.
She decided to complain to the police.
Only then did the extent of the abuse become clear.
Fifteen children were injured by the kindergarten teacher and two assistants, one of them Ben Daniel (32).
In October, an indictment was filed against them for assaulting toddlers, including beating, pushing, pinching and kicking.
After the teacher confessed and was convicted and sent to 16 months in prison and help the other was sentenced to 180 hours of community service because of the assault - son Daniel also decided to admit the offenses of assault and assault by responsible leading to injury around 20 toddlers.
She was convicted that infants raised in the air and slammed them down on the mat, stomped their feet, kicked in part, led to one of them on the floor as she pulls his shirt.
Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court Judge Noa Tavor noted in the sentencing that "the probation service was under the impression that Ben Daniel had difficulty recognizing in depth the seriousness of her behavior, and she is focused on the personal prices she paid for her actions."
Ben Daniel began her sentence Neve Tirza prison in October last year.
Since that is not yet eligible for parole sentence, decided to ask for a pardon from the president.
In his letter adds Mr. Rath that "with all due respect, Mr. President is not an appellate court a second sentence of the Magistrates Court, and certainly it was inappropriate for the president to facilitate just punishment of those convicted of serious crimes and acts of violence and cruelty against infants tender years and helpless.
"These acts left the victims of the crime and their family members with injuries and trauma that, unfortunately, will continue to accompany them for many years after their imminent release."
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