Binyamina mom arrested over suspicion she caged her kids

18 March 2024, 3:23 pm

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A cage suspected of being used for punishing children, in a photo released by police on March 18, 2024. (Israel Police)

Police say they arrested a Binyamina woman yesterday suspected of repeatedly locking her three kids in small cages as a punishment.

The woman, in her 30s, has been conditionally released by a court pending the conclusion of an investigation, police say. She has been barred from returning to Binyamina or being near her children.

The children have been referred to social services, and their condition is not known.

“This is one of the toughest cases I’ve ever come across,” Zichron Yaakov police head Gilad Partok says in a statement. “There was an infant left alone in a closed steel cage not bigger than half a meter (1.5 feet), with no way to get out.”