But even though she has consistently violated the conditions of her release from jail and her behavior directly impacts the safety of her children, the court allows her to remain free – apparently due to haredi threats of more riots.
'Starving mother', kids ruled out of Mea Shearim
Following two weeks of discussing mother's conditions of arrest, Judge Ravid agrees to allow her to remain on house arrest and not to separate her from her children, but rules that they must remain outside of haredi neighborhood and must be under 24-hour surveillance. Mother obligated to undergo psychiatric treatment
Aviad Glickman • Ynet
Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Ravid ruled Tuesday that the mother from Mea Shearim suspected of starving her toddler son will remain under house arrest and will not be separated from her children. Judge Ravid, however, ruled that she and her children must remain outside of the Jerusalem haredi neighborhood and that they will be under 24-hour surveillance.
The mother's legal counsel noted that "this is a humane and understandable decision" after waves of violent protest erupted in the ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem following the woman's arrest.
The judge also ruled that if the woman fails to provide the court with the exact address at which she and her family will be living, she will be detained until the end of the legal proceedings against her. It was also ruled that she will be obligated to undergo psychiatric treatment and to allow regular medical supervision of her children.
Since being released to house arrest more than a month ago, the mother has been staying at her house in the Mea Shearim neighborhood together with her children. The toddler she is suspected of abusing is staying with a relative.
The prosecution has made repeated demands to return the woman to police custody, or to at least remove her from Mea Shearim and separate her from the rest of the her children after a judge on the case ruled that there is significant concern that she may be dangerous to them.
Discussions of the conditions of the woman's arrest continued for quite some time. They reached a dead end two weeks ago when the probation services announced that it failed a third time to evaluate the mother. Probation services said it was unable to evaluate options for her detainment due to her lack of cooperation with authorities.
In this same hearing, the judge said that he would consider the defense's suggestion that the mother stay in a house with her children under the surveillance of four women, but only on the condition that Welfare Bureau employees be allowed to enter Mea Shearim to supervise the goings-on in the mother's house.
Once the story broke, Welfare Bureau employees were threatened by Mea Shearim residents and have been afraid of entering the neighborhood ever since.
During one of the previous hearings, Rabbi Avraham Froelich, who is accompanying the mother, hinted that returning the mother to police custody would likely re-ignite haredi riots in Jerusalem.
The trial is slated to open on Monday after a two-week postponement granted at the mother's behest so that she could arrange legal representation for herself.
[Hat Tip: effie.]
This is a real mess. Haredim are learning that if they act with violence then they get what they want and no one will counter attack them. They also learn that they can do what they want, to whomever they want.
If the haredim riot again, the police should go in full force. Any parent seen bringing children into the riots should have their children put into care.
Because the mother is going against the court's orders she should have the kids taken away from her and be put into jail for contempt.
Posted by: R | October 13, 2009 at 10:24 AM
burn baby burn!
it is time to make more and bigger riots against the evil zionist nazi gestapo pigs.
dont make the mistake that the residents of gush katif made by letting the evil zionist nazi gestapo pigs remove the residents of gush katif from their homes! dont let the pigs into mea shaarim to remove yenta markowitz from her home!
4 years ago they forcefully removed the residents of gush katif from their homes and now they want to forcefully remove residents of mea shaarim from their homes!
this means that they probably want to give mea shaarim away to the arabs as part of some pieces of land for "peace" deal.
the lubavitcher rebbe YECHI ADONENU MOREINU VRABENU MELECH HAMOSHIACH LEOLAM VAED SAID THAT IT IS FORBIDDEN BY JEWISH LAW TO GIVE AWAY PIECES OF ERETZ YISROEL TO THE ARABS in the hopes that giving away pieces of land to the arabs will make the arabs want to live peacefully with us. if you dont want to follow the lubavitcher rebbe and give any land away to the arabs you should instead follow neturei karta and give everything away to the arabs.
Posted by: reuven sabel | October 13, 2009 at 10:56 AM
even though i do believe that we should riot against the evil zionist nazi gestapo pigs i do agree with R that any children who go to the riots should be taken away from their parents because children and minors under 18 do not belong at the riots. rioting is only for adults, not for children or teenagers. people under 18 who see riots taking place or who even see a burning garbage can should walk away from the rioting instead of towards the rioting.
burn baby burn but not until you are an 18 year old baby.
Posted by: reuven sabel | October 13, 2009 at 11:06 AM
the evil zionist nazi gestapo is ordering yenta markowitz to undergo psychiatric treatment. psychiatric treatment for what!
this is just a conspiracy of the evil zionist nazi gestapo to force a pregnant woman who will be giving birth in about a month to take drugs that will either cause her to have a misscarriage G-d forbid or give birth to a baby with birth defects G-d forbid!
the evil zionist nazi gestapo government wants yenta markowitz to have another sick child with birth defects so that their dr mengalas in hadassah hospital can have another sick haredi child to conduct their dr megala experiments on!
isnt it enough that the german nazis killed between 6 and 11 million jews!
why do the zionist nazis have to kill more jews?
Posted by: reuven sabel | October 13, 2009 at 11:24 AM
i have been appointed by the eda hachareidis to tell the world how evil the evil zionist nazi gestapo is and i would like to thank this website for giving me the opportunity to exercise my right to freedom of speach that is granted by the constitution's bill of rights to all who sojourn in this great country, the united states of america.
Posted by: reuven sabel | October 13, 2009 at 11:31 AM
in the zionist occupied holy land there is no freedom of speach. there was a haredi radio station until about a month ago until the evil zionist nazi gestapo pigs arrested the owner of the haredi radio station on some fake charges just to get him off the air and to take away his right to freedom of speach.
Posted by: reuven sabel | October 13, 2009 at 11:38 AM
yenta markowitz is not mentally ill and she is not a criminal. the only thing that she is guilty of is losing faith in the dr mengalas at hadassah hospital who had made her son a guinea pig to test their experimental drugs on.
she used to be a naieve haredi woman who knew nothing about the secular world who had been taught to believe in doctors because doctors are at least ideally G-D'S representatives in this world to heal the sick. she knew nothing about alternative medicine because she was unfortunately from the school of thought in jewish law that one should go to and listen to establishment doctors instead of "quacks".
she had to learn the teaching of reb nachman breslaver to not go to doctors the hard way.
she is no longer the typical naive haredi woman with no exposure to the secular world.she used to shamefully put her hands or a sefer over her face so that nobody could take a picture of her that would identify her. now she wants the whole world to know that she is yenta markowitz and that she is 100% innoscent and she no longer covers her face out of shame.
she proudly shows her face and proudly carries a cellular phone as her weapon the the war of the haredim against the evil zionist nazi gestapo pigs.
the truth will set us free
we shall overcome
burn baby burn
Posted by: reuven sabel | October 13, 2009 at 12:04 PM
the evil zionist nazi gestapo government wants to break up the marriage of yenta markowitz and her husband. they want that she should move out of her apartment together with her children into a home where 4 woman will be living in her new apartment together with her and be constantly watching her with constant surveilliance to make sure that she does not abuse any of her children.
do they plan to put surveillance cameras in this apartment so that they can constantly watch her? do they plan to put a surveillance camera in her bedroom so that she should not be able to have any privacy with her husband? do they plan to watch her on closed curcuit television on shabos so that she should not be able to keep shabos according to the opinion of harav elyoshiv shlita?
Posted by: reuven sabel | October 13, 2009 at 12:18 PM
R S sounds to me like an anti Chabad and anti chareidi troll and his initials are probably appropriate.
Posted by: Shlomo | October 13, 2009 at 05:29 PM
Shmarya, I really think this Reuven guy needs to be banned or at least moderated. He's obviously not well, as seen by the nature of his posts here and on other sites, and I'm not certain if his naming of the woman in question is legal.
Posted by: alternative childcare | October 13, 2009 at 07:51 PM
Unfortunately, Toldos Aron, Satmar and Edah Charedis already named her.
Posted by: Shmarya | October 13, 2009 at 07:54 PM
she has been named by her own people and this is not unfortunate because there is no shame involved because she is not guilty and she is not mentally ill
Posted by: reuven sabel | October 13, 2009 at 11:42 PM
AC, Reuvel Sabel lives in the USA, and isn't subject to Israeli law.
In the USA, it is perfectly legal to name those accused (unless they're juveniles, in which case the proceedings are supposedly closed), and it's even legal to name victims. Most of the press, by convention, doesn't do so, but it's not against the law to do so.
Sometimes a juvenile victim is named, as in the case of the little girl who fought off convicted kidnapper Bernard Perlmutter a couple years ago. A good thing, in my opinion, as she deserves recognition as a hero.
Posted by: Mr. Apikoros | October 14, 2009 at 12:15 PM
boruch hashem i live in a free country with freedom of speech.
burn baby burn
Posted by: reuven sabel | October 14, 2009 at 01:32 PM
"boruch hashem i live in a free country with freedom of speech.
burn baby burn"
I don't know exactly what is meant by "burn baby burn", but those who find that a valid slogan might want to join this burning: http://amazinggracebaptistchurchkjv.com/Download99.html
Posted by: alternative childcare | October 14, 2009 at 02:46 PM
the haredi civil rights movement is in full swing.
the truth will set us free
we shall overcome
burn baby burn
Posted by: reuven sabel | October 14, 2009 at 07:33 PM
Burn baby burn,
Disco Inferno
Burn baby burn
Burn that mother down.
--Disco Inferno, the Trammps
Posted by: Mr. Apikoros | October 15, 2009 at 02:39 PM
you apikorus woman hater you want to burn a woman down?
Posted by: reuven sabel | October 15, 2009 at 06:54 PM