JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The State Attorney’s Office filed an indictment on Tuesday against a 71-year-old charedi woman from the north of Israel, charging her with trafficking in a baby born to a mother who was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward without her consent.
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According to the indictment, the defendant worked to assist people suffering from mental illness. Due to her work, various people approached her asking for help with individuals with special needs, including those suffering from mental illnesses.
In May 2015, the defendant was appointed by law as the guardian of the complainant.
According to the indictment, when the complainant was in the advanced stages of her pregnancy and still hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, the defendant unilaterally decided to give the baby born to the complainant up for adoption. To promote this plan, the defendant located a couple in Israel before the birth and arranged with them for the baby to be given up for adoption in the U.S. in exchange for covering all expenses related to the pregnancy and delivery, without the complainant or the relevant authorities being aware of the defendant’s plan.
On the day of the complainant’s release from hospitalization, the defendant flew with her to New York, without informing the authorities about their trip.
According to the indictment, the couple arrived in the U.S. a few days later to advance the adoption process. During the complainant’s stay in the U.S., the defendant helped advance the adoption procedure, including hiring a lawyer to handle the adoption process in the U.S., hiring a caretaker for the complainant, and preparing the necessary documents.
After the birth, and after the complainant’s condition deteriorated, the defendant signed an adoption consent form on behalf of the complainant and assisted the couple in completing the adoption process with the U.S. authorities.
The defendant stayed in the U.S. for a short period before the birth, returned after the birth, and after the baby was given up for adoption, she returned to Israel, leaving the complainant hospitalized in the U.S.
After the complainant’s release, she stayed in the U.S. according to the defendant’s decision, despite her requests to return to Israel. While in the U.S., the complainant was completely dependent on her surroundings, unable to care for herself, with no financial resources, no passport, far from her familiar environment, and without proper medical supervision as required by her condition.
In September, about six months after the birth, the woman who hosted the complainant purchased a flight ticket for her to return to Israel. After returning to Israel, the complainant took action to retrieve the baby, filing a police complaint.
As a result of the investigation, the couple and the child’s whereabouts were located. The complex investigation was led by the Northern District Prosecutor’s Office, in cooperation with the International Department responsible for international collaboration in the investigation.
Attorney Dina Dominitz, the government coordinator for the fight against human trafficking, stated: “This indictment is unique and precedent-setting, both in Israel and worldwide, and accuses the defendant of serious offenses of human trafficking and kidnapping for the purpose of giving birth to a child and taking it, through particularly cruel exploitation.
“I hope this indictment will bring relief and justice to the young woman at the heart of this case, who was brutally exploited by those who were supposed to protect her.”
in the past the government stole sefardic children from frum families and put them in orphanages and made them secular.
Lots of unanswered question
Such as , if lawyers were involved then seemingly all the proper paperwork was taken care of
And how can you be completely “dependent “ with no passport and then fly back to Israel.
The word traffic is typically used for very specific things. This article is about adoption & the standard for consent in complicated situations.
Really depends on how you present it
Seems like the mom was really unable to care for her newborn. If she was mentally unable to care for a child was that expected to change? If not then were there family members able? Was she aware of the proceedings? Did the older woman make money off this arrangement or was she simply helping in the best way she knew how- providing a loving home to a child from a mentally incapacitated mom and helping a couple adopt a child.
Very fishy story
What usually happens is a mental person can act fully normal when taking the required medications. However, during pregnancy those medications are usually not allowed so not to harm the baby. So the mother goes into a mental state and then maybe takes time to get back to her normal state. Once she was able to go back to normal and start taking medications daily she realized that she doesnt have the baby.
Its a sad situation but if she keeps taking meds she may be able to raise the baby.
I dont know this specific story but i know things like this happen.
Fake news. It’s an adoption gone awry, for whatever legal technicalities. Not child trafficking.
How did she get pregnant?
i hope she knows how to care for a child
Babies need their mothers. If their mothers are unable to care for them, someone else should care for both the baby and the mother, allowing the baby to spend as much time in closeness with the mother. The only exception is if the mother is a danger to the baby even under supervision, which is actually quite rare.