At the hearing held today in the District Court in Tel Aviv, during the arguments for punishment, the Tel Aviv District Attorney's Office demanded heavy prison sentences for Magen Segal's assistants in Holon, who were convicted of child abuse, including mental abuse, and assaulting 26 preschoolers.
The prosecutor's office is demanding 10-15 years for Ortel Binyamin and 7-10 years for Rinat Yanko, both assistants.
The prosecution demands heavy penalties,
As I recall, the judge of the District Court in Tel Aviv convicted about two months ago the two assistants from "Siegal Kindergarten" in Holon for dozens of incidents of assault and abuse of toddlers.
Ortel Binyamin and Rinat Yanko were convicted of physical and mental abuse of a minor, assault causing injury and assault without injury.
The two won in some cases.
Today, during the arguments for the punishment, the representatives of the prosecutor's office said that they are asking for Ortel Binyamin at least 13 years of actual imprisonment plus compensation for the families and a suspended sentence, and for Rinat Janko the state is asking for about 9 years of actual imprisonment plus a suspended sentence.
"It cannot be ignored that each one made the same contribution to the atmosphere of fear and terror in the garden, each one in their actions.
It was a tacit agreement that it was okay to behave like this for 3 weeks of filming.
All this connects to the circumstance that the acts did not stop due to the arrest of any of the accused.
If it weren't for the suspicion shown by two mothers that led to the disclosure of the affair, it is possible that the acts would not have been discovered and the toddlers would have continued to suffer under the arm of the accused and even more toddlers would have joined the circle.
The parents demand: the heaviest punishment there is,
"All the toddlers were damaged in the immediate term. The damages were manifested in various behavioral disorders, developmental delay, speech delay, all of them were treated by different treatment providers. There are toddlers who two years after the incidents of violence stopped are still being treated and have yet to get on a normal path and it is not known if at all. This needs to be expressed. We would like to give special weight to the conviction of those accused of mental abuse towards the toddlers in the kindergarten, the potential damage that may be realized in the future", according to the attorney, attorney Efrat Rotem.
Gal, mother of a toddler from the kindergarten: "My A, the soul in me went to kindergarten healthy and came back with a disabled mark. We will no longer be able to undo her disability. It took me two years to understand this, and to be able to say it. The whole family was also hurt. Both me and A's husband and brother, we are all victims of this abuse! Our lives will never be the same as before A went to this kindergarten. Before I, I sent her to this kindergarten."
As I recall, in the "Sigel" Kindergarten in Holon, the case of serious abuse was revealed in August 2020. "There were chokings, beatings, kicks to the head, kicks to the ribs," says Gal in pain, "stepping on children, pinching, shoving. Everything that comes to mind when you think of a violent kindergarten To this day I watch the videos, and my heart beats".
Chen Kubritz Cohen, from the headquarters of the fight for the children, who has been accompanying the parents since the affair broke out: "We live in a new era of harsher punishment for abuses that hurt us the most! The attorney's office today said loudly and clearly that there was a serious damage to the parents' trust, the public's trust towards the kindergarten public, and further For this there is also a precedent conviction for mental abuse which must also be brought to justice.
There is really no number that can heal the pain and the brokenness of the parents, but there is consistency and a statement here, that the abuse of toddlers is one of the most serious offenses in the book, and not an offense of service work."
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