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Charges were laid Sunday against three staff members at a kindergarten in Petah Tikva, a suburb of Tel Aviv, for physically abusing children in their care. Viktoria Kubatko, 43 years old; Katrina Kirilyuk, 35, and Paulina Zavgorodny, 57, were accused of beating children aged 3 months to 3 years. The preschool was working without a teacher and all three were the only caregivers out there.
The accused were filmed at the security camera committing the acts and confessed to the offenses with which they were charged. Police said the suspects told the detectives that the children "angered them". But Kirilyuk's husband, Igor, told Haaretz that his wife was innocent.
The three men were charged with 35 counts of badault in March, including slapping babies in the face, shaking them, and jostling their heads. The defendants have also been accused of force-fed babies.
Law enforcement officials were alerted to allegations of abuse after the father of a kindergarten child noticed a change in his daughter's behavior who was new to the school. After the father examined the images of the security camera in the institution, he alerted the police, who arrested the women.
The suspects were released subject to certain restrictions and were prevented from working with children. The father of one of the kindergarten children said that without the security cameras, there would have been no criminal prosecution against the defendants, adding that he will not be able to not relax until all three have been sentenced.
"The father who exposed the case stood with a sign at the entrance of kindergarten reading" My son was abused here. "Two policemen tried to kidnap him.Most parents thought he was insane until the film was discovered," said the father who spoke to Haaretz.
The owner of the kindergarten, who was identified only as Alex, told Haaretz that he acceded to the request of the father who asked to review the security camera footage.
"Two days later, he came to kindergarten and said that they said that his son had been abused. I immediately asked to see the cameras and j & # 39; I contacted all the parents. "
Several hours after the charges were laid Sunday, the Ministerial Committee on Legislation gave its support to a law that would encourage kindergartens to install security cameras.
The first bill must be set aside in favor of a bill that would allow the government to subsidize the cost of cameras. Lawmakers will also consider requiring the installation of cameras rather than making it voluntary.
Last month, an badistant at another Kindergarten in Petah Tikva, Ina Skivenko, was charged with killing Yasmina Vinta, a 15-month-old dependent child, and her mother. have abused other children of the same age. .
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