Picture: Harel Yosef Ynet.co.il
A mother from a small religious community confessed to raping her two sons, 8 and 11, to get back at her husband. The social services suspected abuse following one child’s display of unusual sexual behavior at the boarding school where he was placed. Another woman is suspected of abusing her twelve children. The mother did not show any compassion towards her younger son who is mentally disabled and who now bears scars of the abuse on his skin. The siblings of the family have become so mentally unstable that the brothers were molesting their younger sisters, apparently on a regular basis. How can you possibly comment on such a deviant and appalling stories?
These are two cases out of many reported this week. Forgive my cynicism, but is there a child abuse competition that I haven’t heard about?
Currently, there is only one physician in Israel who is an expert in detecting child abuse. Recent study has shown low rate of child abuse diagnosis among Israeli doctors in northern Israel. These sad facts may indicate that these horrendous stories are just a small percentage of a large scale phenomenon.
I really cannot imagine how a child could overcome such a trauma – of being betrayed and abused by their own parents. Judges must impose harsher sentences because these children will have to bear the scars for life on their bodies and on their souls.
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Oy vey is right. What else can you say? Ugh, that is horrendous.
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