"Hopefully one day justice will be done":
Dorina, the mother of baby Jasmine Vinta, who was strangled to death by a kindergarten assistant in Petah Tikva, today (Wednesday) refers to her deportation from Israel in a conversation with "Israel Today" from Moldova.
Dorina was recently forced to leave Israel and return to Moldova, after all her efforts with the Population and Immigration Authority to obtain a residence visa in Israel came to naught.
"I went to visit my family in Moldova and because my visa was not extended I could not enter Israel," she says.
"I do not understand how I am not allowed to be in Israel. My child was born in Israel and murdered in Israel and no one cares about me. My life was ruined, I lost my child," she shared in pain.
"She was not killed, she was murdered. I fought for my child and for other children in Israel. I gave permission to broadcast the video where I see my girl's last moments to save other children. Do not consider me, it's a shame."
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"It has been 4 years since the tragedy happened to me, I have always had problems with everything to do with visas," she shared.
"At the same time, it is important for me to say that I have met wonderful people in Israel with a big heart. I keep in touch with them to this day, and hope that one day justice will be done. I wish very much and hope that the lawyer who represents me will do everything to return to Israel."
Toddler Jasmine Vinta is one year and two months old with parents Vladimir and Dorina, Photo: Courtesy of the family
The tragedy that shocked the country
As reported in "Israel Today", Dorina was recently deported from Israel after a struggle with the Population and Immigration Authority.
Vladimir, Jasmine's father and Dorina's ex-partner, remains in Israel even though he does not have a residence visa.
The tragedy, which shocked the country, occurred in May 2018 when Jasmine, a total of one year and two months old, suffocated in the "Masha and the Bear" kindergarten in Petah Tikva.
Cameras of the garden showed the assistant, Ina Skibenko, covering little Jasmine with a blanket while preventing her from breathing for long minutes.
She even sat on it while fiddling with her cell phone thus preventing her from any attempt to breathe.
Skibenko was charged with killing Jasmine and in July 2019 she was sentenced by the Lod District Court to 17 years in prison.
After the trial ended, the Population and Immigration Authority decided not to continue Vladimir and Dorina's residence visa in Israel.
The visa has been extended several times since then due to media pressure, with the intervention of then-Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and even with the decision of the Jerusalem Court of Appeals.
Dorina waged a legal battle against the decision, but failed to get the decision overturned.
The Population and Immigration Authority stated: "After examining the applications, it was decided to reject them in light of all the circumstances. The mother left Israel while the father was left to stay here without a legally regulated visa."
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