Toddler's fall from third-floor balcony exposed severe abuse in Be'er Sheva

The State Prosecutor's Office filed a serious indictment against a 30-year-old Be'er Sheva resident for assaulting a minor, neglect, false imprisonment, and leaving a child without supervision. According to the indictment, the defendant attacked her daughter, locked her daughters in their room, and ignored their knocking. In the incident, her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter fell from the third-floor balcony and was seriously injured.

The State Prosecutor's Office today (Tuesday) filed a serious indictment with the Be'er Sheva Magistrate's Court against a 30-year-old resident of the city, attributing to her offenses of assaulting a minor by a responsible party, neglect, false imprisonment, and leaving a child without supervision. From the indictment, filed by the Southern District Prosecutor's Office following an investigation by the Be'er Sheva station, it emerges that the defendant attacked her young daughter with kicks and slaps, causing her injury. Additionally, she used to lock her two minor daughters, born in 2018 and 2023, in their room from evening until morning, ignoring their prolonged knocking on the door and instances of severe violence between the girls. The failure peaked following renovations in her third-floor apartment, during which the defendant and her partner sawed off part of the iron bars on the balcony railing to install plasterboard. At the beginning of the month, while the mother was in her room, the minors went out to the balcony, and after about half a minute, the younger daughter, about two and a half years old, fell from the third floor and was seriously injured. After the fall, her older sister went down, picked up her injured sister, and carried her back to the apartment. The girl was evacuated suffering from fractures in her hip and pelvis, liver damage, and pneumothorax, and was hospitalized for about a week and a half.