The murder of the ultra-Orthodox boy in Kiryat Gat: The Magistrate's Court today (Thursday) extended by 11 days - until April 4, 22nd of Nissan - the arrest of the father of the 14-year-old boy, suspected of his murder.
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According to a report in Israel Hayom, Attorney Yehuda Fried, the defense attorney for the father, a 37-year-old Hasidic Gur, presented a transcript of a conversation the father had with his rabbi hours before the incident.
The rabbi said that the father told him, when he was discharged from treatment, about medications he had taken that caused him to hear strange voices telling him to murder his son.
In addition, he heard that he was the Messiah.
The rabbi tried to calm him down and gave him an amulet and told him, "May everything be okay." When he got home from treatment, he called the rabbi again, saying that the voices were telling him about the son's terrible deeds.
The rabbi did not report or contact the police.
According to Fried, "It is now clear that the person guilty of the shocking murder is the therapist, who drugged the father under the guise of medical treatment. These drugs caused the father to experience a severe psychotic attack, which led to the horrific outcome - in which a father murders his son due to the voices and visions that haunt him.".
After the extension of the detention ended, the police requested to submit a new request to remove him from hospitalization and observation of the conditions of detention - and transfer him to detention. However, the police investigators later regretted it and decided not to submit the request to remove him from psychiatric hospitalization.
The defense attorney threatened to complain to the police investigation department about the obstruction of the investigation, because the head of the investigation had spoken to the psychiatrist.
According to the investigator, this is not the reason for not submitting the request for arrest.
According to a report by Assaf Pozilov of Kan News, the father who committed the murder was brought to the court hearing via Zoom over the phone. He was seen swaying non-stop, smiling - and repeatedly shouted: "They're not taking care of me.".
According to the report, there has been a significant improvement in the condition of the father, who is undergoing psychiatric evaluation.
According to a relative, he "came back to himself" and when he heard that he had murdered his son, he exclaimed: "My life is over.".
However, he still hears voices. He claims he was given a pill, a drink, and a mushroom, and the treatment lasted 6 hours.
According to a report by 'Kan News', the 30-year-old therapist who was arrested in the case on suspicion of providing hallucinogenic mushrooms to the father who murdered his son is a former member of the General Staff Patrol and an undercover unit.
The police questioned other patients, some of whom said similar things.
The boy's father is suspected of stabbing his son, critically injuring him, in their home in Kiryat Gat, and later that night the boy died of his wounds at Barzilai Hospital. The father fled the scene, but was located after a brief police chase in a nearby grove, arrested, and taken in for questioning.
The case of the father who murdered his son:
His detention was extended by 11 days. He spoke with his rabbi before the murder when he left treatment and told him about the medication he had taken that caused him to hear voices telling him to kill his son. The rabbi gave him an amulet and told him that everything would be fine. When he returned from treatment, he told the rabbi that the voices were telling him about the son's terrible deeds. The rabbi did not report or contact the police. pic.twitter.com/1dD9zBZNpg— Assaf Pozailov (@pozailov1) March 25, 2021
