The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday sentenced Yisrael Valis,convicted of killing his infant son in 2006, to six years imprisonment and a two-year suspended sentence. Valis was convicted of manslaughter earlier this year for beating his three-month-old son to death.
The baby died in the hospital on April 10 2006, a week afterhis then-19-year-old father hurled him against the wall when he startedto cry.
The young father's arrest led to days of haredi rioting in Jerusalem, after leaders of the vehemently anti-Zionist Edah Haredit community - which the Valis family was part of - accused police of concocting a 'blood libel' identical to European blood libels against the Jews.
Valis, who was arrested after he admitted during police questioning to repeatedly beating his child, later retracted his confession in a court hearing, saying that it had been coerced by police.
Rabbi Eidensohn --
ReplyDeleteSomeone quoted RMS to me as saying that there was foul play in the valles case, and that he should not be helped. Is this true? Ha'Yitachen?
thanks
Don't know nor have I heard anything
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