Modesty patrol 'mercenary' sentenced to four years in jail for assault

[IndianaGreen]

Source: Haaretz

Last update - 05:51 16/03/2009

Modesty patrol 'mercenary' sentenced to four years in jail for assault

By Yair Ettinger

A mercenary for ultra-Orthodox modesty patrols was sentenced to four years in jail in a plea bargain Sunday, for the aggravated assault and intimidation of a formerly Haredi woman.

This appears to be the first conviction of a person connected to a modesty patrol, even though these organizations have been linked to numerous acts of violence over the years, mostly in cities with large ultra-Orthodox populations like Jerusalem and Bnei Brak.

Even though the Jerusalem District Court described the assailants as an "armed militia," Elhanan Buzaglo, 29, was the only defendant who attacked M. nine months ago in her apartment in Jerusalem's Ma'alot Dafna neighborhood.

As reported in Haaretz last October, a series of flaws in the investigation, including a problem with the recording device, enabled Buzaglo's dispatchers - the modesty patrol members - to evade indictments.

One night last June, Buzaglo and four other men broke into M.'s apartment and beat her to the point where she required medical treatment. Buzaglo was convicted of receiving $2,000 to attack M. and intimidate her into leaving her apartment, which is in a predominantly Haredi neighborhood.

The modesty patrols said that after M. divorced her husband, she stopped maintaining an ultra-Orthodox lifestyle and had relationships with men.

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1071305.html

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Religion, the scourge of humankind!

[tkmorris]

1. Well aren't they just a lovely group of people

[MrSlayer]

2. They just love to mind other people's business.

Religion, so great for people. So peaceful.

:puke:

[buckrogers1965]

3. God loves you

And to prove it we are going to beat you unconcious.

[alfredo]

15. It's like them confusing the terrible two's with demon possession, and then

"beating the devil" out of them.

[saigon68]

4. Good to see that fidelity is being enforced

</sarcasm>

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Glad To See That Israel Prosecuted This

I'm looking forward to Iran doing the same. Right after they stop hanging teenagers for being homosexuals.

[gratuitous]

6. So a bunch of cowards . . .

A bunch of cowards go around beating up women and then hide behind some phony religious argument, and it's religion that's the problem? Seems more like gullible fools and cynical bullies that are the scourge of humankind.

[Marrah_G]

7. 4 years is not enough

[No Elephants]

8. We hear so much about the Taliban's treatment of females and so little about this

group.

Is it wrong to hope their testicles shrivel and turn to dust? (Gives a whole new meaning to bj.)


I mean, people post as though having balls equals being brave. So, maybe if their testicles turn to dust, they'll be too chicken to keep beating on women?






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I'm just sayin'.

[cali]

14. Let me explain why.

First of all, under Taliban rule, women were legally oppressed, tortured and murdered. Women in Israel are not treated like that under the law. Far from it. Same with GLBT folks there. Currently, in areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, such as the Swat Valley, where the Taliban is in control, women are oppressed to a far, far greater degree than in Israel.

[noiretextatique]

16. if a agreeing with you is wrong, i don't want to be right

:applause:

[Alcibiades]

9. I actually hope this gets little coverage here

Because evangelical religious kooks look to Israeli religious kooks for inspiration.

[L0oniX]

10. The fundies would do it here too if they could get away with it.

[leftynyc]

12. Our government would

prosecute - same as Israel. It's when the GOVERNMENTS are the pepetrators of this practice that the real problems begin.

[No Elephants]

19. Not only when government is the perp, but also when government does not

prosecute.

[edc]

11. When I read the headline

I thought it was a story from Saudi Arabia.

[sutz12]

13. The beatings will continue until morale improves....

:shrug:

[noiretextatique]

17. women need learn how to defend themselves

that probably wouldn't have helped this woman, but it would help many others.

[DavidMS]

18. Step in the right direction

Everyone (particularity on the left) should know a little about defending oneself. Its great that he was convicted. Its unfortunate that she didn't send him to the hospital first. I don't know the details of the assault so I can't judge, but a throwing a paid fanatic in jail is a good thing.

[No Elephants]

20. Not if the owman who defends herself is going to land in jail or get stoned or

something like that. Countries where this kind of thing is tolerated do not take kindly to women defending themselves.