Beit Shemesh: Chareidi Mother Of 9 Murdered By Mentally Unstable Son, Police Demand Autopsy

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A chareidi mother of 9 from the Ramat Avraham neighborhood in Beit Shemesh was tragically murdered by her mentally unstable son on Friday morning.

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Police arrived minutes after members of the family reported that a youth was attacking their mother. A 27-year-old son of the woman was arrested by police. Paramedics summoned to the apartment found the woman, 52-year-old Tamar Stern, with multiple stab wounds and declared her dead at the scene.

Crime scene investigators from the Jerusalem district also arrived at the scene and gathered evidence of the crime.

Initial reports state that the stabber, Shimon Stern, was mentally unstable and had recently been released from psychiatric hospital. The previous day he had come to a neighbor to ask for a cigarette and complained obsessively that his mother would not buy him cigarettes.

MDA medic Moshe Hillel said that “when we arrived on the scene we saw an unconscious woman in her fifties with signs of violence on her body. We treated her and performed resuscitation but the wounds were very serious and we were forced after a short time to declare her death.”

The family requested to bury the mother in accordance with Jewish law but police demanded that an autopsy be performed. A short time before Shabbat the Jerusalem Magistrates Court rejected the family’s request and authorized the autopsy. The court also extended by ten days the remand of Stern, who has allegedly admitted to the murder during interrogation and claimed that his mother abused him.

A family representative claimed in court that “we are opposed to the autopsy. We are religious people, there are witnesses and all that is required. We don’t feel that there is a need to desecrate the honor of the dead person. We will be happy if the court will not allow the autopsy. We have gone through enough of an abnormal day. Please ease things for us.”

The judge however rejected the family’s request and did not allow them to appeal to the district court. However they can appeal to the Supreme Court and announced that they would indeed appeal the ruling.

The Eda Chareidis said they were prepared to initiate demonstrations if the autopsy goes ahead as planned. In the meantime the ZAKA organization has been helping the family since the tragedy occurred.


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Kollelfaker
Kollelfaker
2 years ago

BDE

Just sayin’
Just sayin’
2 years ago

What is the purpose of an autopsy at this point
The cause of death is clear?!?

Aguttenshabbos
Aguttenshabbos
2 years ago

Unbelievable!!! To this crazy tragic story, And to a judge demanding that an autopsy be performed. In Israel? What a low life Rasha!!! Why is an autopsy so important in this particular case anyway? There are stab wounds all over her? Loss of blood. Why do you think she died?. Absolutely insanity!!!

Last edited 2 years ago by Aguttenshabbos
Qazxc
Qazxc
2 years ago

Not likely to happen in this case, but in theory, the defense can challenge the cause of death in a murder trial, claim the wounds were superficial and she died of improperly administered 1st aid or a concussion from a slip and fall while waiting for the arrival of emergency services, or the wounds were hours old and the son woke up and found her that way or a hundred other ways to cast doubt on the state’s case.

Unlikely to justify an autopsy lehalachah, (I won’t pretend to know), but that is the reasoning behind near universal autopsies of victims of unnatural death.

Judith
Judith
2 years ago

Absolutely horrific !

Yechiel stone
Yechiel stone
2 years ago

What’s the point. The woman had multiple stab wounds so what’s the autopsy gonna reveal that she had a heart attack or died of cancer if it’s not just to trouble a drum family in the Jewish state.

Who knows
Who knows
2 years ago

They have to do the autopsy because Maybe she died of COVID-19?

Educated Archy
Educated Archy
2 years ago

What’s the point of this autopsy? We nebach know what happened. It’s not something that warrants an investigation.

Iyar5
Iyar5
2 years ago

They need to do an immediate autopsy on the brain of the stabber shimon stern and leave the body of Tamar Stern HY’D fully intact, and shame on the wicked evil Jerusalem Magistrates Court

Kibachabatochnu
Kibachabatochnu
2 years ago

This is what billions of people are doing to HASHEM every day, they stab him to ‘death’ with all their sins even after he takes so much care of them like this mother took care of Shimon.

M L
M L
2 years ago

oy vey

Last edited 2 years ago by Rabbi Yair Hoffman