A one-year-old baby was found inside a cage in an apartment in Haifa / Yoav Itiel, spokeswoman for the Municipality of Haifa
Zichron Ya'akov police officers arrested a mother, a resident of Binyamin yesterday (Sunday), on the suspicion that she used to lock her children in a cage at home.
"The baby was left alone in a half-meter closed iron cage, unable to get out," said the police station commander.
The mother, a dog breeder, claims for her part that the children were playing in the cages.
Police officers at the Zichron Ya'akov station recently received a report of suspected child abuse in the city, and launched a sensitive investigation into the matter.
Yesterday, in a proactive action following that report, the police arrived at the house of the suspect in Binyamina, where she lives with her partner and her three children.
When they arrived at the house, the police forces found several cages intended for animals.
It is suspected that the mother would often lock her children in cages as punishment for their behavior.
The mother, a 34-year-old woman, was arrested by the police for false imprisonment, child neglect and abuse of a helpless minor.
One of the cages found in the home of the suspect/Israel Police spokeswoman
The cage located in the apartment is used to transport animals during flights.
The mother, mother, who owns a dog litter business, said that she would play in the cages she uses to train dogs.
"The children as children play with what is in the house, some children like to play in pots and there are children who play in the dog cage and with dogs," she explained to the researchers.
Judge Ziv Arieli noted that most of the indications in the investigation file indicate that this was a "single incident and not a series of events or systematic of the type described in the request, as a punitive act against her minor son."
In the trial on the extension of her detention, the judge agreed to the request of the defense attorney, attorney Omar Belali, and released the suspect to house arrest at her aunt's house in Netanya on her own bail and that of two people who will supervise her, in the amount of 10 thousand shekels each.
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Also, the judge forbade the suspect to get close to her children, and to any other suspect involved in the case, for five days.
At the request of the police, he delayed the execution of the release in order to file an appeal, but ultimately ordered the mother's release.
"This is one of the most serious and difficult cases I have encountered," said the commander of the Zichron Ya'akov station, Sen. Gilad Partok, "the baby was left alone in a closed iron cage, the size of which does not exceed half a meter without being able to leave the place." The station commander Partok added and said that the police, In cooperation with welfare officials of the Binyamina Council, they carried out emergency operations to immediately take care of the family's children.
Another case that occurred about a year ago, a baby found in a cage in an apartment in Haifa/ Israel Police spokesperson
About a year ago, the police arrested a 35-year-old mother in Haifa after her one-and-a-half-year-old son was found in a cage inside the apartment.
The baby was located after the detectives of the Nazareth station went searching for drugs in residential complexes in the city.
During the search, the police forces entered the apartment, where the parents live together with their six children.
A search of the apartment found the child locked inside an iron cage, as well as crystal meth and hashish drugs.
"The detectives were shocked by the sight and immediately rescued the child from the cage," the police said.
Later, the toddler was transferred to the care of welfare officials in the municipality.
The 35-year-old mother, a resident of Haifa, was brought in for questioning and imprisoned, as well as two other suspects who were in the apartment, aged 22 and 27.
It was also reported that the drugs seized in the apartment were in a quantity that indicates that they were not for self-consumption.
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