Beit She’an, Israel – A couple was arrested Sunday evening on suspicion of hitting three of their four children, aged two, five and eight. The man, 40, and woman, 30, have one other child together – a two-year-old.
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Beit She’an Police made the arrests after receiving a report from a welfare worker who suspected the child abuse. The children were taken to foster families.
A child welfare worker began an investigation and collected evidence that the parents had hit the children with belts.
The woman, 30, was arrested first and confessed, saying she and her husband had hit the children for educational purposes. Her husband, 40, was detained several hours later.
The Tiberias Magistrates Court will consider Monday the police request to extend the parents’ remand.
When my husband was a little boy, my mother-in-law used to whip him with a wire.
Babishka- your husband was abused.
posuk in mishlay: chosach shivtoi sonai bnoi. & that’s the torah way if lsh”shm.
If thats called “Abuse” Then most of us parents today were abused! and we turned out to be great people. Those kids that were not hit or smacked at all turned out to be at risk kids. keep on the abuse with a cheshbon don’t hit your child for nothing but sometimes he might need a loving smack.
My Rabbi, R’ Eliyaho Mansour Shlita
once said that hitting in those when we were growing up was great for our generation but in todays generation if you hit as a method of dealing with your anger for your kid didnt do as you had said then its obvious that it wont work in a society like today.
A loving smack once in a blue moon is fine but constant hitting to vet out your anger for him not being respectful?
most teens at risk today were abused in this shape or form so please learn to deal with it in a diffrent matter
correction in those days
What’s the point of hitting a 2 year old with a belt?
I think those so called “parents” need to get a good long beating themselves! This is sick! How can anyone claim they love another, when they ABUSE them physically or emotionally? People who commit such horrid acts are not human, they are not even animals, they are the lowest of the low. I hope they get the punishment they deserve!
Hello? Do you ppl realize that we’re talking about evidence? What does that mean if not black and blue marks all over a two year old. My mothet frasket me too but not like these animals
My rov used to say that we need a yeshiva for the parents.
There’s nothing “loving” about a smack. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that!
And using an object to hit the child? That is just straight out evil and sickening, and pure abuse!
Some people need not only parenting classes, but ETHICAL teaching as well.
These children (& any other’s who suffer like this) deserve better, and the parents should lose custody of them altogether!
(Once an abuser ALWAYS an abuser)
where was I when my father and mother beat me every other day???? (Lol I think they did the right move).
Anon 7:14
The posuk in Mishley that you’re so eloquently quoting does not necessarily mean physical beating. What Shlomo Hamelech is trying to convey is that parents should be there for their children and teach them by example. hence “Chosech Shivto” the absence of parenting.
I was taught many years ago in Sem that the first smack is Chinuch, anything after that is you working off your anger.
A tap or smack without causing physical pain is a lot more constructive than a beating. The child gets the message that you disapprove of his behavior. Inflicting physical pain is child abuse.
No wonder we look like this. This aint funny.
my wife was hit by her mother and only 15 years later we are dealing with the huge emotional aspect of it( therapy etc..)
do NOT hit your children.
Is anybody home?? These are not only abusers, they are BULLIES! Big shots with little kids they can beat up.
All these abuse cases usually lead to disgusting statements by the abuser. For example, “If it was okay for my father to hit my mother, I can hit my wife.” Or, “If my father could smack me around like crazy, I could smack my kids around too.”
So many abused people DO NOT continue the abuse and they are brave enough to say, “I don’t have to be wrong just because my father was wrong.”
They should now begin to educate this man by using belts on him, because that’s the way he decided to educate his children. But they should only educate him for five or ten years like that because that’s when these bullies begin to stop.
After five or ten years they should ask him if he feels educated.
There is a fine line between abuse and discipline. Spankings are sometimes necessary. Rule #1 : Never hit your child out of anger!! Cheders no longer apply such discipline as they have in my day and the amount of chutzpa I see on a daily basis from todays children is not acceptable. A potch once in a while is not a bad thing.
What is really scary is the posters here who think there’s nothing wrong with beating children. Are you the same people who don’t believe “Rabbis” molest children? Maybe you think that’s normal, too!
You’re sicker than this couple!
To Scary:
So you don’t hurt your hand!