Ashdod, Israel - Charedi Protesters Suspected Of Kidnapping Baby's Body
Ashdod, Israel - Police suspect that the body of a baby girl missing late Sunday evening from the purification room at the Ashdod cemetery was kidnapped by the ultra-Orthodox protesters who spent the day rioting over a court decision to run DNA tests on the body.
The year-old baby died earlier Sunday after a week of high fever and coughing. A doctor at a local health clinic had prescribed the child with antibiotics, but the parents opted instead to take her for homeopathic treatment. The baby apparently had not undergone any immunization since her birth, a Health Ministry inspector said.
The Ashdod Magistrates Court ruled Sunday that an autopsy should not be performed on the body, but agreed that it should be taken in for a DNA sample. Dr. Michael Gadolvitch, head of the Ashkelon branch of the Health Ministry, had requested permission from the court to carry out an autopsy on the baby's body despite opposition from the child's ultra-Orthodox family.
Some 500 ultra-Orthodox protesters congregated at the Ashdod cemetery to voice their opposition to the medical tests. Some protesters threw stones and shattered windows on local structures. Police and Border Police forces were on the scene in an effort to control the rampage. Three police officers were lightly injured and one police officer was seriously injured in the protests.
The baby's mother discovered her body early Sunday morning. A Magen David Adom medic said the rescue team tried electric shock and other revival techniques, but "had no choice but to declare her dead."
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 5/28/2006 06:05:00 PM
2 Comments:
At 9:34 PM,
Anonymous said…
The body of the one-year-old infant from a haredi family who died on Sunday morning was kidnapped that very night from the Ashdod cemetery where it was awaiting burial.
The body was apparently stolen by some of the protesters at the cemetery, where 500 haredim had gathered to protest a medical test ordered on the infant's body. Some of them through stones at local structures, breaking windows and causing damage.
Police were working with haredi leaders to locate the body.
Following the baby's death after a week of high fever, which doctors said could have been prevented with antibiotic treatment, a judge ordered doctors late Sunday night to take a sample of the baby's spinal fluid for a DNA test. The judge ordered that the body be transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir, but stipulated that testing not begin until noon on Monday.
The decision prompted riots in the haredi community.
In Jerusalem, riots that started Sunday night continued into the early hours of Monday morning, with rioters burning dumpsters in Mea Shearim and on the Bar-Ilan thoroughfare.
Some threw stones, injuring a policeman.
Other rioters who tried to block traffic in the city's Mea Shearim neighborhood were forcibly dispersed by police
At 2:54 PM,
Anonymous said…
The baby's body was taken for kevura. We have learned from past experience not to trust the police or the doctors at Abu Kabir. They mutilate bodys for their own purposes. What was done should be a source of pride to the charedi communities world wide.
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