Video: Kindergarten teacher and daycare aide in Holon arrested on suspicion of abusing toddlers (Walla system!)
The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court today (Monday) convicted Sigal Adhami, owner of Sigal Park in Holon, on charges of assaulting minors, causing real injury, multiple assaults and breach of the obligation to report. In doing so, Adhami joins the two other kindergarten assistants, Ortal Binyamin and Rinat Yanco, who were also convicted of dozens of assaults and abuse of toddlers, and are already serving prison sentences.
"On many occasions during their work in the kindergarten, on a daily basis, the defendants unlawfully assaulted toddlers while in charge of them, sometimes causing them pain, inter alia, by committing the following acts on them: holding them tightly; Pull them with their hands and feet and drag them; Lift the toddlers and slam them firmly on mattresses or chairs; Toddlers were slapped and even kicked. At times, the defendants 'punished' a disruptive toddler by sitting him for various periods of time, some of them prolonged, in a raised baby chair," the amended indictment filed today said.
Sigal Adhami, manager and owner of Sigal Park in Holon (Photo: documentation on social networks according to section 27A of the Copyright Law)
"During this period, the defendants created an atmosphere of fear in the kindergarten, treating the toddlers as if they were objects. Sigal Adhami, as the kindergarten director, was present at the kindergarten for only a few hours, and although she knew of the existence of violence against the toddlers, she violated her duty to ensure the safety and health of the toddlers and prevent abuse of them," they added.
The affair exploded back in August 2020, when the three aides were filmed abusing and assaulting the toddlers. Two of them, Ortal Binyamin and Rinat Yanco, are serving prison sentences in Neve Tirza for abusing and assaulting the toddlers. The three other assistants: Vered Avraham, Yafit Erez and Livnat Unger, Ortal's mother, whose trial was conducted together with Adhami's, were also convicted on the charges that include assaults on the toddlers.
On July 19, the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court will hold a plea hearing for the punishment, at which time the kindergarten parents will argue for the first time before Judge Ronit Poznansky Katz, after the parties agreed to waive the parents' testimonies during the evidentiary stages.
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