Even the most hardened detective officers, who are used to difficult sights in their work, were shocked by the picture that was revealed to their eyes yesterday evening: during a search for drugs they conducted in a residence in Haifa, they were horrified to find a baby about one year and four months locked in an iron cage.
The terrible incident happened while the detectives of the Nazareth station and the Haifa detectives were on an operational activity to locate drugs in a residence in Haifa.
During the search, substances suspected to be crystal and hashish drugs were seized in an amount not for personal consumption and two suspects were arrested for their possession, residents of Haifa aged 22 and 27.
The baby's things inside the cage.
Pillows and a bottle in a space of half a meter,
During the search, the police entered the apartment on the entrance floor of the same house, where parents live with their six children.
In one of the rooms they saw to their astonishment a large iron cage with a locked inside and a child about one and a quarter years old inside.
Pillows and a drinking bottle were found next to him.
The detectives released the child, and the 35-year-old mother - who was not present in the apartment - was brought to the scene and arrested by the detectives for false imprisonment, neglect of a helpless minor and abuse of a helpless minor.
The police will ask to extend the detention of the mother and the two suspects at the court in Haifa.
Police officer of the Haifa station, Corporal Yossi Atias: "This is one of the most serious and difficult cases I have come across. It is about a baby who was left alone in a closed iron cage whose size does not exceed half a meter, without being able to get out of it. The police rescued the baby and arrested the mother The police, in cooperation with the Haifa municipality's welfare officials, carried out emergency operations for the immediate concern of the other children of the family who were there.
We take seriously any injury to the helpless and will work hard to deal with the case."
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