A one-year-old baby was found inside a cage in an apartment in Haifa (Yoav Itiel, spokeswoman for the Haifa municipality)
The detention of the mother whose baby was found locked in an iron cage in an apartment in Haifa was extended today (Wednesday) for four days.
The mother is suspected of abusing the helpless with neglect and false imprisonment.
At the hearing held at the Haifa Magistrate's Court, the representative of the police, Sergeant Eddy Kantrovitch, stated that the suspicion against her had grown stronger. According to him, "This is not a one-time incident, she puts her son in a cage regularly."
Defense lawyer Daniel Drowitzki, representing the mother, returned and appealed for her release even today. He claimed that the police are seeking to extend her detention again, "probably because of the extensive media coverage," and called on Judge Ahsan Kanaan, "not to let this happen." According to the defense attorney, "this story has been blown out of proportion.
This case should be conducted on the social level, more than on the criminal level." According to him, the mother is in contact with welfare, which "knows her very closely and for good reason, and it is no small thing that the children were not removed from the house."
He continued, "In the end, what was found is the same incident in which the detectives entered the house and saw a child in a cage. There is a very large gap between what she is suspected of and the story of the actual act. She did not leave the house and locked him in an abandoned cage. This is a nursing mother of a two-month-old child Extending the detention by two days will not lead to the investigation of the truth but will lead to pain and suffering."
The mother's detention was extended by four days.
The baby in the cage (Photo: Israel Police Spokesperson)
From the discussion it appears that the prosecutor's office is already accompanying the investigation - an indication that an indictment is being formed in the matter.
"Investigative actions were carried out that promoted the suspicion against the suspect and strengthened it in the sense that there is now a reasonable suspicion of multiple cases involving false imprisonment and abuse of the helpless and/or neglecting him," stated Judge Ahsan Halabi in his decision, "this state of affairs strengthens the grounds for arrest and there is justification for continuing her arrest".
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